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Turkey Wants Safe Haven For Refugees In Syria. Will UN – Or NATO – Oblige? -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
Suggesting it has taken in its fill of refugees, Turkey is expected to press the UN this week to create a safe haven inside Syria, saying the humanitarian burden 'now needs to be shared.'
Pressure is building for the international community to create a safe haven inside Syria for the thousands of Syrians uprooted by their country’s intensifying civil war.
With Turkey already at the threshold of 100,000 Syrian refugees, which Turkish officials have suggested could be their country’s limit, Syria’s neighbors will be looking to a high-level United Nations meeting this week to find ways to address Syria’s humanitarian crisis without simply leaving it to Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, and others in the region to take on.
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