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Kaleva

(36,312 posts) Fri Jan 2, 2015, 06:42 PM Jan 2015

An interview with a Kurdish mother who talks about her two daughters who left home to fight ISIS.

"Fikirye still hadn't received any word about her eldest. In October, she turned on the television and recognised Evrim’s corpse in the news. Falling to her knees, she wept. "

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/12/kobane-our-children-never-come-back-2014121891115546455.html

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'Our children never come back' (Original Post) Kaleva Jan 2015 OP

How sad. Chemisse Jan 2015 #1

(30,813 posts)

1. How sad.

Fri Jan 2, 2015, 06:44 PM

Jan 2015

I admire the Kurds. They are out there fighting for their people, not sitting around waiting for the US to do it.