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Should Turkey Re-Open Its Border To Syrian Refugees?
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As background, Aleppo, Syria's main city, currently being carpet bombed, is almost surrounded and has now only one safe route in and out. The population has shrunk drastically but over a quarter of a million people still live there. About 10% only of the Christian community of 200,000 remains.
Thousands of civilians now trapped outside the borer with Turkey, with the Turks only allowing the seriously ill and injured through.
I wonder if anyone saw Mail journo Peter Oborne (just back from Aleppo) on Newsnight last night. I am sure he is a lovely man, but he did seem to be regarding the whole thing as some sort of jolly wheeze. maybe it was just his accent and the fact that he looks like the housemaster of a minor public school :-)
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As background, Aleppo, Syria's main city, currently being carpet bombed, is almost surrounded and has now only one safe route in and out. The population has shrunk drastically but over a quarter of a million people still live there. About 10% only of the Christian community of 200,000 remains.
Thousands of civilians now trapped outside the borer with Turkey, with the Turks only allowing the seriously ill and injured through.
I wonder if anyone saw Mail journo Peter Oborne (just back from Aleppo) on Newsnight last night. I am sure he is a lovely man, but he did seem to be regarding the whole thing as some sort of jolly wheeze. maybe it was just his accent and the fact that he looks like the housemaster of a minor public school :-)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'd say as long at Turkey can keep them in camps by the border and not allow them to wander across Turkey towards other countries, thus changing their status from 'refugees' to 'economic migrants', then the rules normal are one is allowed to flee to the next safe country. I don't rates the chances of them being able to ensure that though so I'm not 100% sure it the right answer. Indeed I'm unsure allowing them to wander elsewhere wouldn't be seen as a relief in Turkey. Maybe it's the borders from Turkey to elsewhere that needs to be made secure.
Perhaps it's worth explaining why Turkey has closed its border: it's because they reckon they are at saturation point, with 2 million plus refugees already in the country. So now they want money from the EU to help cope. And there has been some tough negotiations going on, with - allegedly - a few months ago, the Turks threatening to bus refugees on over the next border if more help was not forthcoming. Bit naughty, but you can sort of see where they are coming from.
The Turkish prime minister has said that they'll have to open the border at some point, as the situation on the other side will plainly become even more desperate. As it is, the city risks becoming a larger version of Benghazi as it was just before the intervention of the coalition against Gaddafi.
The Turkish prime minister has said that they'll have to open the border at some point, as the situation on the other side will plainly become even more desperate. As it is, the city risks becoming a larger version of Benghazi as it was just before the intervention of the coalition against Gaddafi.
agchristie...it would depend on who you asked...some people in Britain would have pushed these people back into the sea !
Syria is above all else a humanitarian crisis, and its about time the international community stopped faffing about and did something positive, instead of keep blaming each other.
It is estimated that there may be many 10,000's of unaccompanied children in Europe, all of the extremely vulnerable. I wonder if this is what it was like post summer 1945 ?
Syria is above all else a humanitarian crisis, and its about time the international community stopped faffing about and did something positive, instead of keep blaming each other.
It is estimated that there may be many 10,000's of unaccompanied children in Europe, all of the extremely vulnerable. I wonder if this is what it was like post summer 1945 ?
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There is actually a UN resolution calling on all sides to stop bombing civilians.
I'm afraid it's a bit of a chocolate teapot of a resolution. The fighting will only stop when it is in the interests of one or more parties to do so.
Many of the people in Aleppo are actually refugees from other parts of Syria - notably IS controlled areas.
Amazingly (as a slight aside) a daily coach service runs from Beirut to Raqqa - the driver takes a bottle of cologne on board to cover the smell of cigarette smoke to fool the IS border guards ...
Amazing how life goes on in the chaos ...
I'm afraid it's a bit of a chocolate teapot of a resolution. The fighting will only stop when it is in the interests of one or more parties to do so.
Many of the people in Aleppo are actually refugees from other parts of Syria - notably IS controlled areas.
Amazingly (as a slight aside) a daily coach service runs from Beirut to Raqqa - the driver takes a bottle of cologne on board to cover the smell of cigarette smoke to fool the IS border guards ...
Amazing how life goes on in the chaos ...
> Spindler said that his agency acknowledges the fact that Turkey is already hosting 2.5 million refugees, which has inflicted a "huge strain" on the country's economy, and called on the international community to assist Ankara in handling the burgeoning crisis.
"This is clearly an international crisis and we all have an obligation to assist," he said.
Right, so stating the obvious out of the way, the answer is.....er, nobody seems to know....
"This is clearly an international crisis and we all have an obligation to assist," he said.
Right, so stating the obvious out of the way, the answer is.....er, nobody seems to know....
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