Turkey throws Syrian Refugees out of Homes/Schools, while they flee Turkish Camps for Lebanon, Jordan, Kurdish Iraq, even back to Syria ! The Turkish Authorities are recently throwing out Syrian Refugees, including Families and many Children, asking them to leave Homes and Shelters they have found at villages near the bordes of their Homeland (f.ex. in Antakya, Hatay, etc), Closing down even Schools which used to educate many Hundreds of young Syrian pupils, in order to oblige them to go inside Concentration Camps, under Heavy Turkish Police and Military surveillance, parked like animals in Tents or Containers massed in narrow spaces surrounded by Barbed Wire, dangerously over-exposed to excessive Heat, deprived of any Tree, despite many Forests in the area, in which they are hindered to go, even if most Refugees denounce the Harsh Conditions prevailing inside those Turkish Camps, from where many Families had to flee, searching "a clean environment" for the Health of their Children, away of a scandalously blatant promiscuity inside oppressive "no man's lands" where Turkish Authorities mass them in narrow, confined tiny spaces, piled up worse than animals, as many International Photos have proved.
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Thus, meanwhile, more than 23.000 Syrian Refugees have already fled to Iraq, mainly at Northern, predominantly Kurdish areas, and recently as much 1.100 Syrian Refugees reportedly crossed the Kurdish Iraqui border in just one Day..
In Lebanon, Syrian Refugees were recently estimated at about 72.000, and "Thousands more are expected soon, given a growing pace of fresh arrivals, (f.ex. some 2.400 People registed on September just in 1 Week !)..
In Jordan, there already are more than 81.000 Syrian Refugees registered by the UNHCR, and arrivals continue by several Hundreds each day.
On the contrary, in Turkey, where Ankara claims to have "about 78.500 People" only, (i.e. only a small Minority, compared to the overall figure of much more than 254.000 Syrian Refugees aready spread among Neighbouring Countries), People are trying to flee .. back to Syria (and/or towards Iraqi Kuirdistan, Lebanon or Jordan, etc), Reducing those obliged to stay in closed Turkish Camps by big groups of more than 2.750 People leaving Turkey just in 1 week !.. In total, more than 35.000 Syrian Refugees have already left Turkey, either returning back to Syria or fleeing into other neighbouring Countries.
(Sources : UNCHR + International Press Agencies).
.... - "A few days ago, the (Turkish) Police came and told us we had a week to Leave Antakya. .... said 35-year-old Syrian Refugee, Mahmoud Mohammed. He, his Wife, their 2-year-old son, and his brother's Family are living in a two-room apartment for $150 (€116) a month.
Samar Mohammed, Mahmoud's wife, said they had tried to live in a (Turkish) refugee Camp, but found the Conditions Difficult :
- "My son has bronchitis and suffers from complications. He needs special food and a Clean Environment," she said. "Our Needs wereN't met in the (Turkish) Camp, and his condition got Worse".
- " We've been living in this apartment for two months and it would be very Hard to go back to the (Turkish) Camps".
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Antakya's mayor, Lutfu Savas, said ...sectarian tensions .. , ..security concerns and potential discord were the main reasons for plans to relocate [sic !] (Syrian) refugees who are outside the Camps. .... Turkey is concerned that the sectarian tone of the conflict could exacerbate tension in its own communities.
- " .. our (Turkish) Government wants .. (Syrian Refugees) ...to move ..."First and foremost, .... into the refugee Camps". Even "if they have the Means and ...Passports, they're being asked to move Out of Hatay"
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- Sali Al-Bounni, a Syrian teacher and assistant principal at a School in Antakya that taught 800 Syrian Children, said it was recently Closed because of the (Turkish) government's decision to move refugees Out of Hatay province.
- "The day we closed the School, everyone — students, teachers — was Crying," he said. "Now the Families are calling us and asking where we'll be relocating because they want to move to where the school will be. But we have no idea where to go."...
Among many others, See, f.ex. also :
http://news.yahoo.com/turkey-seeks-relocate-syrian-refugees-101427401.html
