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Turkey restricts academic research on Syrian refugees

Turkey's Interior Ministry now requires academics to get prior approval before conducting research on the country's 2 million Syrian refugees.

Kurdish refugees from the Syrian town of Kobani wait to fill their jerrycans around a clean water source at a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province February 1, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR4NRVB
Kurdish refugees from the Syrian town of Kobani wait to fill their jerrycans around a clean-water source at a refugee camp in the border town of Suruc, Sanliurfa province, Feb. 1, 2015. — REUTERS/Umit Bektas

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