A group of 400 more Syrians also entered the country on Saturday through Akcakale border crossing in southern Sanliurfa province, according to the report.
Syrian refugees were given health checks first and registered before they were transferred to refugee camps, said the report.
According to the latest figures from the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate, the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey had exceeded 900,000 in April.
Only 224,000 of them are living inside the camps in Turkey.
Turkey, once an ally of President Bashar al-Assad, is now a fierce opponent of his government, supporting opposition attempts to topple him.
Source:Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
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UK warns 500,000 may cross Mediterranean...
ReplyDeleteNaval vessels from Italy, Britain, Ireland and other countries steamed toward the waters off Libya on Saturday to rescue the latest wave of migrants from smugglers’ boats.
British authorities warned that up to 500,000 people could attempt the perilous crossing this summer.
Capt. Nick Cooke-Priest, on the British warship HMS Bulwark, told reporters aboard: “Indications are there that there are 450,000 to 500,000 migrants in Libya who are waiting at the border” for voyage from the North African country’s Mediterranean coast in hopes of reaching Italian shores.
Also aboard the Bulwark, part of a multi-nation patrol and rescue force, was British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon. “We could see hundreds of thousands trying to cross this summer,” Fallon told reporters who asked about the captain’s half-million figure.
During Saturday, a total of 3,480 migrants had been safely rescued in 15 separate operations, the Italian coast guard said. Calls for help went out via satellite phone earlier in the day from the smugglers boats, which included six rubber dinghies and nine fishing boats, all some 45 miles (72 kilometers) off the Libyan shoreline, the coast guard statement said..........AP............http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/06/07/UK-warns-more-migrants-to-try-Mediterranean-crossing.html
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