New refugee camps go up inside Syria as Turkey stems flow

Turkish aid workers have been setting up tents and distributing supplies for thousands of new Syrian refugees kept from entering Turkey at the border.

 

Refugees have been receiving aid from the Turkish Islamic aid group IHH

 

Turkey is trying a balancing act between providing sanctuary to those fleeing Syria's war and reducing the numbers of refugees travelling to Europe. 

Some 35,000 people fled a Syrian government offensive in the Aleppo area last week, trying to enter Turkey's Kilis border region.

 

But Turkey has so far closed the border to most of them despite appeals by EU leaders to let them cross.

Turkey already shelters more than 2.5 million refugees from Syria's war.

Many Syrians have gone on to seek asylum in the EU and made up the largest group among more than one million refugees and other migrants who entered illegally last year, mainly by sea from Turkey.