{"id":133,"date":"2014-10-15T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/?p=133"},"modified":"2014-10-15T09:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T09:00:52","slug":"war-children-living-as-refugees-in-turkey-these-children-have-fled-the-fighting-in-kobani-but-their-fathers-are-still-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/archives\/133","title":{"rendered":"War children: Living as refugees in Turkey, these children have fled the fighting in Kobani &#8211; but their fathers are still there"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Thousands of people trapped in a besieged Syrian border town face genocide by drug-crazed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/isis\">Islamic State terrorists.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is the horrific reality described by the Kurds who have managed to flee into Turkey from Kobane, where the barbaric fanatics hold sway, despite coalition air strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Terrified civilians are stuck in the town and in a no-man\u2019s land between the outskirts and the border, which is closed to them.<\/p>\n<p>Ekram Ahmet, 40, who fled Kobane with his wife and five children six days ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/sunday-people\" target=\"_blank\">told the Sunday People: <\/a>\u201cMany of the old people refuse to leave their sons to fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many have nowhere to go and many more are trapped between the town and the Turkish border \u2013 out in the open \u00adwaiting for rescue or certain death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIS are animals. They\u2019re not human. They have a bloodlust the like of which I\u2019ve never seen \u2013 it\u2019s as if they enjoy killing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They revel in cutting heads off \u2013 it\u2019s like their trademark.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/inside-kobane-drug-crazed-isis-savages-4423619#ixzz3GCb4LiT8\">http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/inside-kobane-drug-crazed-isis-savages-4423619#ixzz3GCb4LiT8<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us: <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=dndq0sFGyr34avadbi-bnq&amp;u=DailyMirror\" target=\"_blank\">@DailyMirror on Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=dndq0sFGyr34avadbi-bnq&amp;u=DailyMirror\" target=\"_blank\">DailyMirror on Facebook<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people trapped in a besieged Syrian border town face genocide by drug-crazed Islamic State terrorists. This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/PAY-Syrian-Child-refugees-in-Turkey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/childrenfirstnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}