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    Turkey fears new influx of up to 600,000 Syrian refugees

    The Turkish government fears that fierce fighting in Syria's Aleppo province will prompt a fresh influx of 600,000 refugees arriving at its border in a "worst case scenario," Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday.

    "The worst-case scenario that could happen in this region in the short term would be a new influx of 600,000 refugees at the Turkish frontier," Kurtulmus
    told journalists following a cabinet meeting.