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Turkey opens biggest refugee camp for 35,000 from Kobane
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 27 - 01 - 2015

ISTANBUL — Turkey opened its biggest refugee camp on Sunday to house 35,000 people fleeing fighting between Kurdish forces and militants in Syria's Kobane, national disaster management agency AFAD said.
Located in the southeastern border town of Suruc, the tent city has two hospitals, seven medical clinics and enough classrooms for 10,000 children, AFAD spokesman Dogan Eskinat told Reuters.
He said months of fighting in Kobane had caused an influx of some 200,000 refugees into Turkey and that AFAD would see how the situation develops before deciding whether any more facilities should be constructed.
Turkey has some 24 camps housing 265,000 Syrian refugees with another set to open in Mardin next month, Eskinat said. More than 200,000 people have been killed and millions displaced in the Syrian civil war since March 2011.
The majority of Turkey's 1.7 million refugees live outside camps, sometimes on the streets and in shanty towns, causing tensions with the local population.
Authorities have begun to transfer those living on city streets to camps. Militants attacked Kobane more than four months ago.
Iraqi Kurdish forces were dispatched to help Syrian Kurds fight the advance and a US-led coalition has bombed militants linked to the self-proclaimed Islamic State group to push the group east out of the city and surrounding villages.
The Kurds, who have secured effective self-rule in northern parts of Syria, now control around 90 percent of Kobane, said the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks the war that has dragged on for four years. — Reuters


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