Turkey spent the months leading up to its military incursion into northeast Syria forcibly deporting refugees to the war-torn country, in advance of attempting to create a so-called “safe zone” on the Syrian side of the border, a new Amnesty International report ‘Sent to a War Zone: Turkey’s Illegal Deportations Of Syrian Refugees’ has revealed.
Day: 25 October 2019
UN: Conflict must be stopped to prevent humanitarian crisis
Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ursula Mueller, said that “almost 180,000 people, including close to 80,000 children, have fled south from the border areas between Turkey and Syria.”
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