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3:00 am
Mon October 10, 2011

Assassination Galvanizes Syria's Kurdish Minority

The anger inside Syria at the assassination of a leading Syrian Kurdish politician is reverberating along the country's border with Turkey. More than 7,500 Syrians are already sheltering in camps in southeast Turkey, and officials fear a fresh wave of migration if Syria's largely peaceful uprising turns into an armed insurgency.

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