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Turkey, Russia Fear Humanitarian Disaster in Syria’s Idlib

Sun, 02/16/2020 - 10:39am

Turkey, Russia Fear Humanitarian Disaster in Syria’s Idlib - Associated Press

A Turkish delegation will travel to Russia Monday to discuss the situation in Syria’s Idlib province amid mounting fears of a humanitarian disaster there, Turkey’s foreign minister said.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians in Idlib province are scrambling to escape a widening, multifront offensive by Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces. 

“What matters is today around 1 million people from Idlib have been moving towards our border,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a statement Saturday after a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump in which they discussed Syria and other topics. “We are already hosting 3.5-4 million people. Unfortunately we are not in a position of accepting this another 1 million.”…

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