UN-REFUGEES/TURKEY-CAMP JOLIE Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugee camp in Turkey

Record ID: 151860

  • Title: UN-REFUGEES/TURKEY-CAMP JOLIE Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugee camp in Turkey
  • Date: 20th June 2015
  • Summary: MARDIN, TURKEY (JUNE 20, 2015) (REUTERS) UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES ANTONIO GUTERRES GETTING OUT OF CAR WAVING AT SYRIAN REFUGEES REFUGEES WATCHING GUTERRES WALKING PAST VARIOUS OF WOMEN WATCHING OUTSIDE TENTS VARIOUS OF PEOPLE GATHERED OUTSIDE TENTS UN SPECIAL ENVOY FOR REFUGEES ANGELINA JOLIE REFUGEES WAITING BEHIND FENCE TO SEE JOLIE JOLIE AND HER CHILD SHILOH JO
  • Embargoed: 5th July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVAF3STWMPKALB0T70Y2ZTN5HGK
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie and High Commissioner Antonio Guterres visited a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey's southeast Mardin province on Saturday (June 20) after holding talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan.
    Guterres and Jolie were in Turkey to mark World Refugee Day.
    Jolie was accompanied by her daughter Shiloh.
    Turkey now hosts more than two million refugees in total and it has spent more than US$6 billion on their accommodation.
    Worldwide, an estimated 5.5 million people were forcibly uprooted during the first six months of last year, 1.4 million of them fleeing abroad, according to the UNHCR.
    An estimated 3.8 million people have fled Syria since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began in 2011.
    The four-year war has killed more than 220,000 people and injured more than one million.
    Syrians have overtaken Afghans as the largest refugee population aside from Palestinians, fleeing to more than 100 countries to escape war in their homeland, the United Nations said earlier this year.
    Afghan refugees, the biggest group for three decades, have fallen to second place, with 2.6 million hosted by Pakistan and Iran at mid-year, it said.
    Somalis ranked as the third largest refugee group at 1.1 million.
    The Middle East and North Africa has become the main region of origin of refugees, overtaking the Asia and Pacific region that held the top spot for more than a decade.
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