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Turkey: US, Russia Could «Start Third World War over Syria Conflict»

Turkey: US, Russia Could «Start Third World War over Syria Conflict»
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Turkey had warned the world will be plunged into a global conflict with America and Russia on opposing sides if the war in Syria cannot be resolved.

Turkey: US, Russia Could «Start Third World War over Syria Conflict»

Turkish deputy prime minister Numan Kurtulmus made the comments as tensions between Washington and Moscow surged in the last week with the US pulling the plug on Syria talks and accusing Russia of hacking attacks.

On Sunday, Russia condemned Washington for making "unprecedented" threats of cyber-attacks following accusations by the Obama administration that Moscow had hacked computers belonging to American political organizations.

Kurtulmus said: "If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war."

He then warned that the Syrian conflict had put the world 'on the brink of the beginning of a large regional or global war.'

Relations between the Russia and the US were already at their lowest since the Cold War over the Ukraine conflict.

On Monday, Russia's military announced that Russian and Syrian Army forces would halt hostilities for eight hours in the eastern districts of Aleppo. Though, it did not include any promises of an extended cease-fire.

Regarding the situation in Iraq, "If the Mosul operation is handled correctly, there won't be a refugee wave into Turkey," Kurtulmus told a news conference in Ankara.

He went on to say: "[But] if something goes wrong in Mosul, hundreds of thousands will put their migrant bags on their backs, they will be miserable and worn out, and come with their belongings to the only place they can go to, which is Turkey".

The United Nations refugee agency said up to 100,000 Iraqis may flee to Syria and Turkey to escape the assault on Mosul, a city of 1.5 million people where Daesh [Arabic acronym for "ISIS" / "ISIL"] had declared a self-proclaimed "caliphate".

Turkey is home to more than three million Syrian refugees, however its refugee camps can only house around 200,000 people.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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