Turkey closed the border with Syria on Sunday leaving thousands of people who had fled Kobani stranded in a minefield in no-man’s-land on the border.<br /><br />The assault on Kobani by ISIL has forced more than 200,000 to flee across the border into Turkey. <br /><br />Syrian refugee Celal Weli left ahead of his family to find a safe place for them in Turkey. Now he is desperate to return and rescue them.<br /><br />“This is not right. I am trying to bring this bread to my children. They are right over there. But it is prohibited to cross the border,” he said.<br /><br />Another refugee, Samiha, described how her husband was stranded in no-man’s-land.<br /><br />“My husband is old and needs help from his son to walk. I told the Turkish soldiers to help accompany him, but they refused,” she said.<br /><br />A new refugee camp has been set up in Suruc in Turkey close to the border.<br /><br /> The United Nations has warned that hundreds of civilians who are still trapped in Kobani are likely to be “massacred” if it falls to ISIL.
