Heartbreaking pictures of Kobane refugees - PHOTO

Having been forced to flee their hometown due to the threat posed by the Islamic State, thousands of desperate families crossed the border into southern Turkey, where they will now be living in tents and basic shelters for the foreseeable future.Despite the horrific rapes and massacres carried out by the terrorists attacking their home town, the children now living in the Suruc refugee camp remain full of smiles, not yet fully aware of quite how lucky they and their families have been to avoid becoming victims of the extremist horde.Many of those living in the Suruc refugee camp arrived there four weeks ago, when ISIS first moved into the east Kobane suburbs and their plot to capture the largely Kurdish town emerged. Those able to do so fled to the Turkish border where ethnic Kurds on both sides of the crossing frantically cut down the barbed wire fencing that forms much of the incredibly porous 550 mile border between Turkey and Syria.Not everybody was able to leave the city before ISIS confronted them, however.Reports from inside the city at the height of the siege last week told of decapitated bodies scattered around Kobane's streets - of a savagery worse than anybody had dared to fear.Refugees who made it to Suruc tell of witnessing appalling horrors in hushed tones, as if they can barely believe it themselves.Father-of-four Amin Fajar, 38, said: 'I have seen tens, maybe hundreds, of bodies with their heads cut off. Others with just their hands or legs missing. I have seen faces with their eyes or tongues cut out – I can never forget it for as long as I live. They put the heads on display to scare us all.'  It worked. Mr Fajar, a floor fitter from Kobane, and his wife and children aged three to 12, ran for their lives.'The children saw the headless people. They saw them,' he said quietly, sitting cross-legged on a rug in his tent in the squalid refugee camp in Suruc.Ahmed Bakki, a farmer from a village near Kobane, said his cousin, a 48-year-old father of seven, stayed behind when the rest of the family fled. 'We phoned my cousin and IS answered his phone.They said, 'We've got his head, and we're taking it to Jarabulus (an IS stronghold)'.'He added: 'An English teacher in our village tried to reason with them, but they just called him a kaffir [non-believer] and tied him to their car and dragged him away. We heard they beheaded him later. 'My neighbour was beheaded because they said he was 'delivering vegetables to the kaffir'. They burned his farm, livestock, even his bees – they destroyed everything.' (dailymail.co.uk)Bakudaily.Az