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09.11.2012. The United Nations reported that 11,000 Syrians fled to
neighboring countries on Friday, the vast majority clambering for safety over
the Turkish border, in one of the largest single-day torrents of refugees since
the Syrian conflict began. It came as mayhem and deprivations were worsening
inside the country, its president more determined than ever to stay and his
fractious enemies still politically paralyzed.
United Nations refugee agency officials said 9,000 of the fleeing Syrians,
many of them drenched from a cold rain, went to Turkey. The flow alarmed
Turkish officials and led their prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to vent
bitterly at the five permanent members of the Security Council for what he
called their failure to respond decisively to the crisis after nearly 20
months.
“The world cannot be left to what the five permanent members have to say,”
Mr. Erdogan told a conference in Indonesia. “If we leave it to the five
permanent members, humanity will continue to bleed.”
