Angelina Jolie, the UN special envoy, visited Turkey’s largest refugee camp for Syrian refugees near the Turkish Syrian border, where overjoyed thousands welcome the Hollywood star. Video
Turkey Syria Border / NationalTurk – Angelina Jolie, accompanied by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonia Guterres, met with some of the 12,000 refugees at Öncüpınar refugee camp in southeastern Turkish city, Kilis which lies right on the border with conflict-wracked Syria.
The Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie listened to the stories of the Syrian refugees who fled the violence in Syria, where a brutal conflict that began as a peaceful uprising against the Al Assad led Damascus regime has now claimed estimatedly lives of 27,000 people.
Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey
The Turkish and global media was not allowed to cover Angelina Jolie’s meetings with the Syrian refugees. Only her departure was documented.
Angelina Jolie was also briefed by Turkish officials at Öncüpınar camp on the conditions at the border refugee camps which altogether shelter some 80,000 registered Syrian refugees.
Angelina Jolie visited a different refugee camp in Turkey in June last year, will also travel to another refugee camp in nearby Gaziantep city, and move on to Ankara for talks with officials, including Turkish President Abdullah Gul.
On Tuesday, Jolie visited a refugee camp in Jordan where she appealed to the world to “do everything they can to support these refugees” fleeing the escalating conflict in Syria.
Ankara has called for safe zones to protect people on Syrian soil, but the proposal fell on deaf ears at a UN Security Council meeting in August.
Angelina Jolie Un envoy speaks at Syrian refugees camp in soutern Turkey Video
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