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Over 100,000 Syrians in Istanbul
Istanbul (Dunya) The number of Syrian refugees living in Istanbul has reached more than 100,000, the newspaper Zaman reported on Monday. It said the Syrian refugees in the city were generally better off than the nearly 500,000 other Syrians who are living in tent city refugee camps in southern Turkey. Syrian refugees preferred to live in the conservative districts of Fatih, Aksaray, Bagcilar, Kucukcekmece and Basaksehir, Esenyurt and Beylikduzu. Many were getting jobs in Turkish companies. In Fatih, a conservative district favored by Muslim visitors from the Africa and the Middle East, some 30,000 Syrians live, the daily said. Suat Bayar, a realtor in Aksaray, told the newspaper that scores of Syrians seeking to rent flats in the district visit him every day, and rental fees for flats were soaring. Due to the excessive demand, there remain no flats for rent in Aksaray, he said. The Syrians have to go father out of the center of the city to rent flats. But many Syrians had fled their country with little or no money, and were living in public parks by night, the newspaper reported. Many have had loved ones killed in bomb attacks from government forces.
Syrian refugees in border province Kilis are transferred from public parks to camps built for the people fleeing from the war torn country.
cusing Western-backed groups, including Ahfad al-Rasul and the Northern Storm brigade, of acting like the USfunded Sahwa who fought Al-Qaeda in Iraq. But Lister said ISIL had adopted a perceivable strategy of acquiring and consolidating control of areas on Syrias borders with both Iraq and Turkey, ever since it came on the scene in the late spring. This allows the group easy access to new recruits, sources of funding and
supplies, he told AFP. Its by no means impossible that it intends to put a stranglehold on the ability of moderates (rebels) to secure sustainable levels of supplies from across the borders, Lister added. Havidar, a Kurdish-Syrian activist and citizen journalist who has covered fighting between ISIL and Kurds, said ISILs endgame was to establish an Islamic state. ISIL doesnt have an ideological problem with the Kurds or with anyone
else. It just wants no other group to have any arms or self-sufficiency, to create a state that extends from northern Syria into Iraq, he said. Another activist in Raqa, near the Turkish border, said it was now virtually impossible to leave Syria without crossing through one of their checkpoints. ISIL has a grip on Raqa, the only provincial capital in Syria that is completely out of Assads control. Though tensions between it and other rebel groups even Islamists