National Geographic - USA (2021-11)

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Syrians pour into
Turkey in 2014, part
of a wave of people,
mostly Kurds, escap-
ing ISIS. The nearly
four million Syrians in
the country today—the
largest refugee popu-
lation worldwide—also
make up the great-
est mass migration to
another country in the
region since the fall of
the Ottoman Empire
a century ago, when
ethnic Armenians fled
Turkish persecution
and genocide.

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