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epa04321023 Refugees who fled from Syria and Aleppo sit on a street outside a public park at the Fatih district in Istanbul, Turkey, 18 July 2014, where hundreds of Syrian refugees gathered to stay. While 2.9 million Syrians have fled to Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, countries in Europe have only taken in a total of 123,000 people, the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in Geneva. UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming had urged European countries to share the burden. EPA/ULAS YUNUS TOSUN