Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged the international community to help Syrian refugees in Turkey, pointing out its financial difficulty in coping with the growing influx of refugees.

"The world is not giving support to us. We want the world to show sensitivity," Erdogan said at a business gathering in Aegean city of Izmir, calling on particularly the World Bank to help aid the refugees.

The prime minister went on saying that Ankara has spent more than two billion U.S. dollars in services for more than 600,000 Syrian refugees in the country, but the aid they got from international donors was only 135 million dollars.

However, Erdogan said Turkey would continue to shoulder the burden because the Syrian refugees were "our brothers."

The Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate said earlier that there are 21 refugee camps located near the cities close to the Turkish-Syrian border, adding that all the Syrian refugees in these camps have been provided with shelter, food and services of health care, security, social activities, education, worship, translation, banking and communication.

Turkey, which has a 910-km border with Syria, faces large influx of refugees from its conflict-hit neighbor. Endi

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