Turkmens escape to Turkey from Russian al Assad fire in Syria
Date
1/31/2016 9:19:15 AM
(MENAFN- The Journal Of Turkish Weekly) Some 1635 migrants mainly women children and elderly people crossed into Turkey on Jan. 29 and 30 from Syria after leaving their camp across the border due to rising security risks as theRussianand Bashar a-Assad forces’ bombardment of Turkmen villages in the region continued.
The group had taken refuge in the Turkish-built Yamadi camp after shelling by the regime and alliedRussianforces’ intensified in the Bayrbucak region of northwestern Syria according to a statement by the Turkish Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD). However they were forced to cross the border into the Yaylada district of Turkey’s southeastern Hatay province as the bombing intensified.
The refugees will be accommodated in AFAD centers in Hatay Gaziantep and anlurfa upon their biometric registration processes.
A mobile coordination center mobile catering vehicles and six ambulances have also been sent to the area.
A mass migration management system which was implemented in Turkey amid the large flow of Kurdish and Arab Syrians fleeing the town of Kobane in 2014 has recently been relaunched AFAD also stated.
As part of the measures some 202 personnel have been tasked by AFAD the Health Ministry the Gendarmerie General Command the Security General Directorate the Turkish Red Crescent and the Interior Ministry’s Directorate of General Migration Management.
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