As airstrikes hit Northern Syria and threaten Kurds, they're being watched with trepidation in Nashville, home to the largest population of Kurds in the U.S. 'We were all crying,' says a man who fled Syria in 2006. 'This is where we were born and raised.”
For 38-year-old Dilgesh Abraham, the news is consuming social media and text message threads. And a call with his mother this week left both in tears.
Abraham grew up in Qamishli on the Turkey-Syria border, about 70 miles from one of the cities reported to be under attack. Abraham has little good to say about Turkish or Syrian treatment of Kurds. And he eventually was able to help move his three siblings to Norway and his parents to Germany — although he’s never been able to reunite.
"I condemn in the strongest possible terms any U.S. policy that will result in endangerment of the Kurds who have sacrificed so much blood and treasure alongside American forces," Blackburn said Wednesday."The Turkish offensive into northern Syria is damaging and in direct opposition to the international rules-based order."In Nashville, most Kurds are from Iraq, not Syria. But that distinction hardly matters, says Jeger Ali, who served as a translator for the U.S.
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