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| The Grand Turk | |
| Erdogan Moots Building 'Refugee City' in Northern Syria | |
| 2016-03-06 | |
| [An Nahar] Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... has suggested building a new city in northern Syria to house some of the millions of refugees escaping the country's civil war, reports said Saturday.
teachable moment... "I am going to tell you something. What is the formula? We found a city in the north of Syria," said Erdogan, quoted by the Anatolia news agency. He said that the city would be 4,500 square kilometres in area and its infrastructure could be built in cooperation with the international community. Refugees from Syria could be "resettled" there, he said. Such an area would make the city comparable to some of the largest urban centres in the United States. "We have discussed this with Mr Obama and even set the coordinates but it has not yet come to fruition," said Erdogan. He gave no timescale for how the project could be realised. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... has repeatedly sought to persuade its Western allies to help create a so-called safe zone inside Syria that could house Syrian refugees. But this appears to to be the first time that Erdogan has proposed building a permanent city in which they could be housed. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 likeley importing Islamist Arabs into Kurdish traditional territory. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-03-06 10:29 |