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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. Photo: AFP/Getty
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August 20, 2012
ANKARA,— Turkey cannot handle more than
100,000 Syrian refugees and instead proposes a UN
buffer zone inside Syria to shelter them, Turkish
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said in remarks
published Monday.
"If the number of refugees increases to 100,000, we
will not be able to shelter them in Turkey. We have
to welcome them in Syrian territory" under UN
auspices, Davutoglu told the newspaper Hurriyet.
The chief Turkish diplomat urged the United Nations
to set up refugee camps "within the borders of
Syria" in order to contain the number of Syrians
fleeing the conflict in their country.
Davutoglu said Ankara would take part in a
ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council on
August 30 to study the humanitarian situation in
Syria and neighbouring countries,www.ekurd.net
hoping a decision will be taken there.
But Russia and China, which have used their veto
three times on UN Security Council resolutions
threatening sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's
regime, may not attend.
The exodus of refugees to Turkey has intensified in
the last week as a result of a Syrian army offensive
and fighting in the northern city of Aleppo,
reaching a total of 70,000.
Turkish authorities began distributing aid to
refugees on Syrian soil at the weekend.
The increasing flow of refugees has raised fears of
a repeat of the 1991 Gulf War in 1991, when 500,000
Iraqi Kurds massed along the common border.
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