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Turkey raps international failure to tackle Syria aid crisis

KUWAIT - Turkey's foreign minister on Thursday deplored what he called an international failure to tackle the humanitarian crisis in war-ridden Syria, saying food and medicine are running out and snipers are shooting pregnant women.
Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey, which has received more than 600,000 Syrian refugees, would keep its border with Syria open to people fleeing the violence but said the world needed to share the humanitarian burden.
"I have to express our deep disappointment and frustration because of the absence of a proper reaction by the international community regarding the humanitarian situation on the ground," he told reporters in Kuwait during a bilateral visit.
Turkey, which shares a 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria, is a strong critic of Syrian President BasharAssad and a major supporter of rebels fighting to oust him.
The more than two-and-a-half-year conflict has killed over 100,000 people and displaced millions.
"Those who can come to Turkey, they are the lucky ones, those who are back in Syria, they do not have anything to eat, they do not have hospitals, medicines, anything," Davutoglu said.