Hatay officials look for fleeing Syrian refugees

Turkey's Foreign Ministry is looking to coax back upward of thousands of Syrian refugees to temporary camps in the country's south as they remain unaccounted for elsewhere in Turkey, an official told the Hurriyet Daily News yesterday. "Syrians who crossed the border illegally or escaped from the camps have been invited to come back to the camps by the Foreign Ministry," Suphi Atan, who has been appointed to coordinate the Syrian camps in southern Turkish cities, said in a phone interview yesterday. Atan said there were between 5,000 and 10,000 Syrians living in Hatay outside the camps, and there were thousands of others in other cities.