Turkey calls on UN to create refugee camps in Syria

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Turkey called on the UN Security Council to immediately create refugee camps inside Syria.

31 August,2012 04:49 am

Turkey on Thursday called on the UN Security Council to immediately create refugee camps inside Syria, warning that it could not cope with the flow of people fleeing the conflict.Turkeys Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the United Nations had to act without delay to set up the camps. He told a Security Council meeting that more than 80,000 Syrians are now in camps in Turkey, with 4,000 crossing the border each day and 10,000 waiting at the frontier.