GENEVA
The conflict in Syria will have created 3.6 million Syrian refugees by the end of 2014 - one million of them in Turkey, the United Nations estimates.
Presenting an updated 2014 Syria Regional Response Plan in the UN headquarters at Geneva on Friday, Simon Ingram, UNICEF's Middle East and North Africa Regional Chief of Communication, said: "There are 10.9 million people inside Syria in need of humanitarian aid and 5.1 million of them are children."
"There are currently 2.9 million Syrian refugees and 1.49 million of them are children.
Ingram added that UNICEF required $770 million for its projects, but was facing a $487 million shortfall as the organization had received only $283 million from donor countries.
- 'Dramatic consequences'
UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming called on donors to fund a $3.74 billion program for Syrian refugees across Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt, warning of dramatic consequences if the shortfall continued.
Fleming said donors had contributed $1.1 billion to the Syria Regional Response Plan so far in 2014, but the amount represented only 30 per cent of the revised requirements to cope with the new estimate of 3.6 million Syrian refugees existing in the region by the end of 2014.
There were 765,560 Syrian refugees in Turkey as of June 1 - 220,450 of them in camps and 545,110 outside of camp areas within the country.
The UNCHR projected that, by the end of 2014, the number of Syrian refugees would hit the one million mark in Turkey, with 300,000 of them living in camps and 700,000 of them outside.
According to the UN, there are 2.9 million Syrian refugees registered in the region, with numbers growing at a rate of 100,000 people every month.
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