Turkey to evacuate southeast in case of Iraqi attack

Gas masks would only be available to security and humanitarian aid personnel, Gonen said. Officials at the humanitarian organisation said recently it was making preparations to accommodate up to 100,000 refugees. Authorities have also started preparations to build a camp of 24,000 tents near the border with Iraq in preparation for a possible refugee influx from northern Iraq, the autonomous Kurdish regions that serve as a buffer zone between Turkey and the Baghdad regime.