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(6 Apr 1999) Turkish/Nat Refugees from Kosovo have started to arrive in their host countries after being airlifted out of the stricken region by NATO. More than one-thousand exhausted ethnic Albanians stumbled off six planes in Turkey on Monday. The Turkish government has promised to accept 20-thousand more people fleeing Yugoslavia's embattled province. This camp in Corlu, near the Turkish-Bulgarian border, will be a temporary home to these new arrivals from war-torn Kosovo. Gazi Osman Pasa camp was once used for Muslim refugees during the Bosnian war. On their arrival at the camp, the refugees were checked by doctors while aid workers distributed food. Despite having reached safety, most were dazed and uncertain of the future. The old and infirm had to be helped from the buses that transported them from the airport only to have to queue again, under the watchful eye of Turkish police. The registration process is slow, hampered by the fact that many refugees had their identity papers confiscated by Serb forces as they were forced to leave Kosovo. But authorities say most were in good health, despite the hardships experienced in the past few weeks. SOUNDBITE: (Turkish) "All the refugees are in good condition. One woman has been taken to hospital because she is pregnant and expecting a baby." SUPER CAPTION: Kemal Onal, Provincial Governor Some two and a half thousand of the newcomers will be placed in prefabricated houses, built for ethnic Turks who fled Bulgaria a decade ago. But the bulk of the Kosovo refugees will live in a huge tent camp which will be established nearby. Over six-thousand Kosovo refugees have already been settled in Turkey, mostly with relatives migrated to Turkey in the years after World War One. Turkey has close cultural, ethnic and historic ties to the Balkans, which was ruled by Turks for hundreds of years during the Ottoman Empire. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...