The number of refugees from Syrian Kurdistan who recently arrived in the region is increasing
ARK News: The wave of migration and asylum from Syrian Kurdistan to the Kurdistan Region is still continuing, and the number of refugees is constantly increasing.
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 eastern Euphrates in Syria until the seventh of February, 2020, is over 20,545 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, and more than 20,545 Syrian refugees have arrived in the Kurdistan region after the Turkish military operation.
According to the center: on Friday, February 7, 2020, 545 refugees arrived, thus the total number has increased to over 20,545 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 invasion, 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 that have committed in the Kurdish region of Afrin.
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