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07 December 2012 [17:10] - Today.Az
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Turkey on Friday, TRT Haber TV channel reported. His plane landed at the airport in the city of Gaziantep.
It is expected that Ban Ki-moon will visit the Syrian refugee camps in the Turkish cities bordering with Syria.
Also, Ban Ki-moon will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, during which the Syrian crisis will be discussed.
Today the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey, who escaped the unrest in the country is more than 130,000. A total of 10 tented camps for Syrian refugees have been operating in the cities of Hatay, ?anl?urfa, Gaziantep and Kahramanmaras.
Anti-government protests have continued in Syria for more than a year and half.
According to UN, the total number of victims of the conflict in Syria is nearing 30,000.
Over 230,000 have become refugees with around three million in need of humanitarian assistance. The Syrian authorities say they oppose the well-armed militants.
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