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  1. Jos Stratford

    Birecik, SE Turkey currently safe?

    In reality the question could not be answered anyhow ...it is further from the border than Birecek and, as a consequence, could be regarded as safer, but I would not like to be the person that advises it safe or not safe. Chances of something happening in that particular town on the particular...
  2. Jos Stratford

    Birecik, SE Turkey currently safe?

    It is also, in my humble opinion, completely rubbish. "I was just in Birecik last week, and Birecik is fine!" There have been serious security issues on the Turkish side of the border several times in this last summer, including the July bombing of Suruç by IS killing over 30 people - this...
  3. Jos Stratford

    Birecik, SE Turkey currently safe?

    I am no expert on IS, but the reality is we have no idea - it has not happened yet, and I think currently the chances are relatively small. But as for tomorrow, Al Shabaab has done so from its Somali stronghold, taking westerners from the north Kenya coast, so perhaps IS could do so in Turkey...
  4. Jos Stratford

    Birecik, SE Turkey currently safe?

    Do not mix IS/ISIS and the Syrian Free Army, the latter certainly has been supported by Turkey and the West to varying degrees, but the Syrian Free Army is not an Islamic extremist group ... other than their incompetence, lack of organisation and failure to unite, there was no significant reason...
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