Turkish Interior Minister Muammer Guler has denied Ankara is building a wall on the Syrian border and said that there were only barriers being built to keep people away from minefields, Trend reports.
Fuat Okay, head of the Turkish Directorate for Prevention of Emergency Situations, said that there were about 300,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey. Over 181,000 of them live in camps, with over 100,000 in areas around the border.
