According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNRA), over 100,000 Syrians fled the country in August alone, seeking status as refugees. This is by far the most of any single month since the civil war began, and amounts for some 40 percent of the refugees who have fled the nation overall.
“If you do the math, it’s quite an astonishing number,” UNRA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming noted. The figure only counts those who have both fled the country and have sought official refugee status, and therefore is likely considerably lower than the true figure.
The vast majority of the new refugees are in Turkey, which took in 80,000 in August alone. This is not only because of the long Turkish-Syrian border, but because much of the civil war has taken place in the far north, where rebels have seized a number of cities and are contesting a number of others with the Syrian military.
For Syrians mulling fleeing the country, the decision can’t be an easy one. Both regime and rebel forces promise quick victories in their sieges and urge the population to hold tight when they move to take a town. In practice the fighting can drag on for weeks, and in major cases, like the battle for Aleppo, fighting has gone on for a solid month with no sign of either side gaining significant advantages, leaving the population trapped in a war zone.
The Syrian government official have announced that refugees are welcome back at any time, Turkey in the other hand or for that matter Jordanian rulers holding refugees as their hostage negotiating with UN Security Council to take action for what is called "Safe Heaven" for refugees inside Syrian territory, which in reality it means a NO FLY ZONE placed inside Syria, that gives NATO the opportunity to invade Syria attacking it from all directions. Don't be fold by the rhetoric's coming out of a falsified democracy-democratic party, all is about US economic, militarism, geopolitical hegemony in middle east, US and EU been at wars and committed war crimes in that region for years, they don't mind and wouldn't hesitate doing it again. Don't be fold by Bill Clinton a sad crying "philosophical" many faces wanting for you to feel sorry for him, don't be fold by Barack Hussein Obama mimicking Martin Luther King or for that matter Mitt Romney, look at the alternative candidate and political parties to vote for, the word democracy is all about you people, not bunch of bankers and those who works for them, US is not better off today then 10 years ago, US is bankrupt so is EU. You want for the government to create jobs then they need to throw out all these robots working for free instead of you.
The UN seems to want to lay the responsibility for the refugee problem on the doorstep of the Syrian government, and Turkey is seeking sympathy and also authorization to attack Syria. Who created this crisis in the first place? The U.S., EU and NATO- including Turkey-, and the GCC. Does anyone remember the refugee crisis in Iraq that the US, (and EU and NATO) caused with their war in Iraq? Almost 1 million refugees were taken in by the Syrian government and the Syrian people, to be housed, educated and medical needs cared for by the Syrians at Syrian expense, while the U.S. created a national Islamophobic paranoia and let in a few hundred refugees. It's time for we Americans and our leaders to face the truth and accept responsibility for all of this.
Syria's neighbours, foremost Turkey, claim they can't cope with some tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. They have closed their borders and demand a no-fly zone in Syria to create "safe havens".
Syria has been a safe haven for some 1.6 million Iraqi refugees for the last decade. I don't recall the Syrian goverment ever asking for help or complaining they weren't up to the task. It not only shows the hypocracy of Syria's Arab and Turkish neighbours but is also a clear indication that the refugee crisis is being used as a tool to push for regime change in the UNSC by turning Russia and China.
The situation also shows the NAM summit is but a debating club. Support for Syria is only verbal, like that of the AU for Libya – just a bunch of cowardly political leaders.