Thursday, August 30, 2012
"Foreign Boots on the ground?" - Turkey wants UN to house refugees inside Syria under foreign protection.
"Foreign Boots on the ground?" - Turkey wants UN to house refugees inside Syria under foreign protection.(TZ).Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Wednesday Turkey had discussed with the United Nations the possibility of housing Syrian refugees inside Syria and that Ankara expected the world body to take concrete steps towards this. "We expect the United Nations to engage on the topic of protecting refugees inside Syria and if possible sheltering them in camps there," Davutoğlu told a news conference in Ankara. Davutoğlu said Ankara discussed the issue with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and the UN aid chief Valerie Amos. Turkey has floated the idea of a "safe zone" to be set up for civilians under foreign protection as fighting intensifies in a 17-month-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Up to 5,000 refugees a day have been crossing into Turkey over the past two weeks and the United Nations warned on Tuesday that up to 200,000 people could settle in Turkey if the conflict worsens.Hmmmm........"under foreign protection"...who's boots are going on the ground?Read the full story here.
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