Syria crisis tragedy of the century: US

WASHINGTON

US Senate Justice Committee remarked that Turkey's altruism in opening its doors to Syrian refugees was superhuman, at the committee session held Tuesday.

The Committee, under the presidency of Democrat Senator Richard Durbin in the US Senate Justice Committee Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights Subcommittee, described the Syrian refugee crises as the human tragedy of this century.

Durbin explained that he visited the refugee camp in Kilis in 2013 and witnessed the sacrifice of Turkey. "Ten thousand people including women and children were sheltered in the camps in Turkey. Their basic needs such as food, medicine and even primary education is provided," said Durbin.

Helping Syrian refugees is a moral responsibility

Durbin stressed that helping Syrian refugees is a "moral responsibility" and "all countries opening their borders to refugees are making extraordinary sacrifices," he continued.

Durbin added that the US has provided $1.3 billion support for Syrian refugees and said that "this human tragedy in Syria has created difficulties but the allies of US and sheltering countries have already saved the lives of immeasurable people. however, we have to keep supporting them."

Six million people are displaced in Syria because of the crisis for almost three years and hundreds of thousands of Syrian people are sheltering in camps, tents, abandoned buildings and cities in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt.

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