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PM: Turkey to continue supporting Syrian refugees

Politics Materials 27 December 2012 10:39 (UTC +04:00)
Turkey will continue to provide all possible support to Syrian refugees, Anadolu agency quotes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Thursday.
PM: Turkey to continue supporting Syrian refugees

Azerbaijan, Baku, Dec.27 / Trend, A.Taghiyeva /

Turkey will continue to provide all possible support to Syrian refugees, Anadolu agency quotes Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Thursday.

According to Erdogan, Syrian refugees in Turkey need some food products, and the country is ready to meet all the needs of refugees.

At present, the major number of Syrian refugees accounts for Turkey.

According to the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD), the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has reached 105,000 people.

Besides Turkey, Syrian refugees are also in the neighboring Arab countries - Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan.

Anti-government protests have continued in Syria for a year and half.

According to UN, the total number of victims of the conflict in Syria exceeds 30,000.
More than 230,000 have become refugees with around three million in need of humanitarian assistance. According to human right activists, clashes in Syria killed more than 45,000 people.

The Syrian authorities say they oppose the well-armed militants.

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