Waiting for the gate to open: The Syrian refugee crisis
17 Feb 2016 2:45 PM IST17 Feb 2016 2:45 PM IST
This time, they're fleeing the government and Russian offensive on Aleppo.
Turkey must open its doors to the thousands of Syrians who have massed at the border after fleeing violence, the United Nations demanded Tuesday, warning that hundreds of thousands of others in Syria's largest city could be soon cut off from humanitarian aid amid blistering Syrian and Russian airstrikes.- And if they come and if Turkey still won't open the gate, they'll just spread out along the border fence and push through, like they did before.
- Hundreds of thousands will come. The opposition fighters, their families.
- If the regime retakes it, you will have a huge exodus of people pouring out and coming here, to the gate.
- And now the regime and the Russian forces are trying to take this road back. This is important, because it's the main road to the people still inside Aleppo.
- One of the critical points in this conflict came when the opposition took over the main road between Turkey and Aleppo.
- Aid agencies have handed out tents and supplies and for the moment, all these people are just patiently waiting for the gate to open. But all that could all change in a moment.
- Turkey, which already has some 2.5 million Syrian refugees on its soil, hasn't yet opened the gate.
- ens of thousands of people have come to the border with Turkey here and for now they're massing near the official crossing, that gate out of their war-torn country.
- This time, they're fleeing the government and Russian offensive on Aleppo.
- It's just crazy that this is still happening. Five years and it's still happening. Five years that you have this war in Syria. And today you again have thousands of people massed on the border with Turkey.
- These people, they know how to run. They've been running for the past five years and now it's time to run again. So they've picked up and they've run. And now they're just waiting for the gate to open.
Turkey must open its doors to the thousands of Syrians who have massed at the border after fleeing violence, the United Nations demanded Tuesday, warning that hundreds of thousands of others in Syria’s largest city could be soon cut off from humanitarian aid amid blistering Syrian and Russian airstrikes.
This time, they're fleeing the government and Russian offensive on Aleppo.
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