SANLIURFA
United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with refugees staying at a container camp in the southeastern Turkish city of Sanliurfa on Friday.
Attended by officials from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, as well as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the second 'Ministerial Meeting of Syria-bordering Countries' is being held at Harran Container Camp, in which more than 14,000 Syrians are registered as refugees.
During their visit to the preschool at the camp, Davutoglu, Guterres and Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari presented toys to the children.
The group later visited an art exhibition titled 'Life in Syria from the Eye of Children', comprising paintings made by the children of the camp.
More than 100,000 people have been killed in the three-year-old conflict in Syria and over two million Syrians are now registered as refugees in neighboring countries, Turkey, Lebanon and Iraq, according to the UN.
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