Turkey- Syria safe zone for refugees 39no easy task39: EU

10/13/2015 3:15:28 AM

(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly)EU foreign policy chief has said it will be difficult to establish a safe zone in Syria to protect refugees because of increased military activities in the northern part of the country.

Speaking to reporters after a foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Monday Federica Mogherini said: "The situation on the ground is moving fast and the idea of creating safe zones where Daesh is concentrated and Russia is concentrated might not be an easy task to achieve at the moment.

"The real way for allowing Syrian refugees to go back to their country safely would be to put an end to the war in Syria and presence of Daesh in Syria this is going to be the real condition for them to go back" she said.

Turkey which hosts 2.2 million refugees is keen to establish a safe area for refugees to live inside Syria.

At least 250000 men women and children have been killed since the beginning of the Syrian conflict in 2011 with 7.6 million displaced inside the country and over 4 million having fled into neighboring and other countries according to the European Council.

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