More than 200 000 have had to flee the Turkish invasion – Yle Northeastern Syria: the tent camps will rise rapidly

washoe county RABBIT refugee camp, NORTH-east SYRIA the mother Al follow next, after the four men to erect his future home. A couple of hours for a family of four to change the Red crescent to erect the tent.

– we Ran the day before yesterday from our village. The Turkish troops began to fire on it. We don't have more than on our clothes, Ali said.

Turkey has continued his attacks on russia, agreed upon with the ceasefire despite.

Turkish invasion of North-eastern Syria the kurdish region began on October 9. day. The refugees were accommodated in schools and mosques until all the buildings were filled. Now erected tent camps.

humanitarian organisations estimate that over 200 000 people have been forced to flee the Turkish invasion of North-east Syria.

Iraqi Kurdistan Red crescent and Barzanin foundation share mattresses and blankets Northeast Syria Hasakan outside the city.Antti Kuronen / Yle

the Tent rose rapidly in the sandlot Hasakan on the edge of town. During the morning erected dozens of tents.

eight mental and larger families get the two tents. Alia for a small family enough for one.

we Moved to a tent because we can't go back to our village. It is not safe.

Al is the arab, like the rest of his village, residents of Tal Tamri countryside. In northeast syria the autonomous region of half of the population is arabs. The local arabs are fighting, kurds and christians, alongside the Turkey.

the Fighting began when United states president Donald Trump give surprisingly their consent to the Turkish invasion in Northeast the Syrian kurdish of. Trump announced Turkish president Recep Tayip Erdogan with its after the telephone conversation, that he would withdraw U.s. troops from the region.

Kids get sick in the cold

on the Other side of the camp, wed in clean up the tent. He fled Ras al-Ain town, when Turkey started shelling the city for three days Donald Trump's fateful phone call after.

wed the devil is worried about catching influenza from kolmikuukautisesta her baby. Antti Kuronen / Yle

– Not here in the camp easy. I can't even bathe my children. Look at them, said wed in and showing the children. Their clothes and hair are sandy dust-stained.

wed the devil has been two weeks in camp and I miss frantically stove or other heating tent.

– three-month-old baby is ill with the cold of the nights due. I'll take him every day to the doctor equivalent of a cough, but the only heating would help him, said wed in.

the Camp is the lack of all. The only help has come to Iraqi Kurdistan Red crescent and other aid organisations.

there is a particular Lack toilets, showers and clinics.

"All there is a shortage," said Barzanin foundation, the representative of Iraqi Kurdistan. Antti Kuronen / Yle

it Is true that we need heaters in the tents. Winter is coming, said washoe county Rabbit camp director Fayez Ibrahim .

He hopes the broader international effort. The security situation is, according to him, can be a reason for inaction. Hasakan town can be reached safely from Iraq through.

Iraqi Kurdistan, humanitarian organisations have brought tents, food and mattresses. It is not enough when winter comes.

a Large part of the Turkish invasion of the escape of more than 200 000 people have children.Antti Kuronen / Yle

wed in interrupted unexpectedly, the interview, because in the camp distributed blankets.

in a hurry.

His four - and six-year-old daughter for the next best, according to the suit, when the mother run towards the truck.

the Camp residents have the tag, which entitle to help. Truck formed around the human cluster in the middle of wed the devil manages to get over the mattress and two blanket.

They are Iraqi Kurdistan Barzanin foundation donated.

dream of the return home

Talal and his wife Aram sitting in his tent with his four children. They are Wedhen way fled Ras al-Ain town, which Turkey is conquered. Talal is, however, a kurd.

She told how the family fled on foot to Turkey fire. There were bodies everywhere.

Talal, according to Turkey used the forbidden white phosphorus burning weapons.

I Saw people who died of white phosphorus from, how their skin was burnt, says Talal.

Ras al-Ain city of the kurdish-language name is Sere Kanye. The vast majority of the city's population was kurdish. In the city lived also christians and arabs.

Talal does not believe he can come back.

They would kill us, maybe mestaisivat. They hate the kurds and christians. Commanders have marked the houses walls, to whom they belong.

Talal according to the Turkish used by the syrian composed in armed groups is a lot of jihadists.

arab may, perhaps, return to Ras al-Oh, but the kurds and the christians, it is impossible.

– the House has already changed the way people of the Syrian officer at idlib to, From and Homsista. Turkey also imported syrian refugees have been transferred to our houses. The Turkish mercenaries occupy our house, our country and all our stuff, said Talal.

Talal kurdiperheen is not the return of Turkish rule to his hometown of Ras al-Ain.Antti Kuronen / Yle

talal have no plans for the future. Camp is her only option.

– I Hope that big countries such as the united states and the EU to do something, so we could return to our homes. We don't want to go anywhere else than home.

the united states and Russia have agreed to a ceasefire with Turkey. Them Ras al-Ain is being occupied by Turkey as territory.

deep down Inside, Talal know that the united states or the EU will force Turkey out of his home town.

He also knows that Turkey plans for the future of the region belongs to the syrian kurdish people.

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