Global growth, migration, terror to top agenda of G20 summit

REFUGEE CRISIS AND TERROR

Kirton expected the G20 to act on terrorism and Syrian refugees.

Turkey is caring for more than two million Syrians fleeing from a war that has been raging on since March 2011.

The issue did not come to the fore until this summer when hundreds of thousands of refugees knocked on the doors of European Union countries and repeated tragedies of migrants drowned in the sea on their voyages to Europe dominated the headlines.

Turkey and the EU had inked an initial agreement on the issue, under which the bloc agreed on a set of conditions, including financial aid, in exchange for Ankara's embrace of refugees to be returned by European countries.

The security situation in Turkey, a NATO member, has deteriorated as well since the government launched in late July simultaneous attacks on targets of the Islamic State group inside Syria and those of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey's southeast and northern Iraq.

Terror attacks have befallen the country, with the deadliest suicide bombings hitting the capital Ankara on Oct. 10, killing a total of 102 people and marking the bloodiest attack in Turkey's modern history. Ankara blamed the IS for the tragedy.

At their opening dinner, G20 leaders will consider how to better care for millions of refugees from Syria, and the concern will probably extend to the root cause of the crisis -- the wars in Syria and Iraq, Kirton noted in his article.