'Almost One Million' Syrian Refugees in Turkey

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The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has reached "almost one million," Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, while pledging to keep accepting those fleeing the war.

"Are we supposed to ask our brothers not to come, and to die in Syria?" Erdogan said as he addressed his party's lawmakers in parliament.

The three-year conflict in Syria has sent millions fleeing to neighboring countries and beyond.

Turkey, a staunch opponent of the regime in Damascus, is one of the countries that has born the brunt of the refugee crisis, along with Lebanon and Jordan.

The United Nations said earlier this month that more than a million people Syrians had officially registered as refugees in Lebanon, and that numbers were swelling by the day.

Comments 2
Thumb EagleDawn 22 April 2014, 14:16

....and they will for sure vote in the june elections!

Missing coolmec 22 April 2014, 14:20

yes of course so would the refugees in Lebanon and elsewhere
Bachar will get 99.99% of the vote. An improvement over his 95% from earlier vote....lol
what a joke