23,000 flee Syria to Turkey in two weeks: UN
‘The UN refugee agency says some 23,000 people have fled Syria to Turkey in less than two weeks as Syrian Kurdish forces are engaged in fighting against Takfiri ISIL terrorists inside Syria on the border with Turkey.
A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday that the people fled to Turkey between June 3 and 15.
“This is according to the figures we received from Turkish authorities this morning,” UNHCR spokesman William Spindler said.
He added that “most of the new arrivals are Syrians” fleeing fighting in the border town of Tal Abyad, but they also include nearly 2,200 Iraqis “from the cities of Mosul, Ramadi and Fallujah.”’
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