World News - Turkey started to extend assistance across the border with Syria to help people who were there who leave their country due to violence, the agency said an emergency affairs, Sunday (19 / 6).
"The distribution of humanitarian aid has begun to meet the urgent food needs for the citizens of Syria are waiting in the Syrian border," said the statement posted on the website of the aid agency.
This is first time Turkish authorities launched the cross-border assistance mission I once accommodated more than 10,000 refugees in the Syrian cities of the Turkish tent.
Thousands of Syrians gather on the Syrian border, still has not decided to cross. They are forced to live in the open or in places with roofs Protection from plastic sheets and wooden poles, stick with potluck food and water from wells.
The statement said the number of refugees residing in Syria camps Turkish Red Crescent in the border province of Hatay Turkey reached 10,553 people arrived on Sunday after 585 people and 146 have been returned to Syria on their own.
On Thursday (16 / 6), Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey would keep its borders open for the Syrians who fled due to violence and provide humanitarian assistance to thousands of people at the border.
Many come from the Jisr al Shughur, an anti-government insurgency-prone areas, 40km dar digepur Turkish border Syrian government forces.
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