Page 101 - A Helping Hand for Refugees

increasing hunger, thirst and poor health conditions are worsening
living conditions. Bearing in mind that 18,000 of the civilians killed were
children, and 16,000 were women, we can obtain a better picture of the
scale of the horror in the country. Some 10 million innocent Syrians have
abandoned their homes in a bid to escape the slaughter; around four
million of these have had to seek safety as refugees in other countries.

Turkey has begun playing host to some 1.5 million refugees by
opening its 911-km long border with Syria. Turkey has built 24 tent cities

for these people, each one the size of a municipal district, spending $3.5
billion in the process. The number of refugees is expected to reach two
million by the end of the year.

One hundred seventy thousand Syrians only recently fled from
Syria to escape attacks by ISIL and took refuge in Turkey in a very short
time. Indeed, 138,000 of our brothers came in an intense wave to our
country in just three days: That figure is equivalent to the number of
refugees accepted by Europe in three and half years. It would be unac-
ceptable to keep two million people fleeing from Syria for their lives
waiting at the border because death is nipping at their heels. It is also

very difficult to check the people coming when the border is in such
turmoil. If the arrivals include internationally wanted terror suspects
then there is no means of detecting them. If the people entering wish
to return to Syria, it is very hard to establish why people want to go
back to their country. The existing insecure border therefore results not
only in slaughter, but also in a spiral of violence that threatens the whole
world.

People fleeing war, conflict and death need a region where they
can be safe. The most correct international decision in the name of
humanity is the establishment of a 'secure zone' along Syria's border
with Turkey. The most urgent need is to establish an area where people

fleeing the Assad regime, ISIL, the PKK and all other gangs can all live
in safety along with the local inhabitants. A buffer zone established via

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