Kurdistan Region .. the numbers of people fleeing from the Turkish operation exceeded 18,000 refugees

ARK News: According to statistics issued by the Joint Crisis Coordination Center of the Ministry of Interior in the Kurdistan Region, the number of Syrian refugees arriving in the Kurdistan Region after the Turkish military operation in the eastern Euphrates in Syria from the ninth of last month until the eleventh of December 2019, reached over 18,000 refugees.

The number of Syrian refugees living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq before the Turkish military operation is about 230 thousand Syrian refugees, about 40% of them reside in nine camps in the provinces of Duhok, Erbil, and Sulaimaniyah, more than 18,000 Syrian refugees have arrived in the Kurdistan region shortly after the Turkish military operation.
According to the center: Yesterday, Tuesday 9 December, 61 refugees arrived, thus the total number has increased to 18,120 displaced people.

The United Nations is concerned that 50,000 Syrian refugees will cross in the short term to the Kurdistan region if the current situation in northeastern Syria continues to remain intenseness.

With the start of the military operation, hundreds of thousands of Kurdish, Arab and Christian families have fled to safer areas, due to their fears that armed factions may commit war crimes similar to their violations in the Afrin Kurdistan region.

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