Not so long ago home for most of these Syrians was the once-affluent merchant city of Aleppo.<br/> <br />Now it's a refugee camp near the border with Turkey, where temperatures regularly drop below freezing and food is in short supply.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: UNIDENTIFIED REFUGEE SAYING (Arabic):<br/> <br />"What can we do? We feel cold and everybody is hungry but what can we do? There's water flowing through my tent."<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: UNIDENTIFIED REFUGEE SAYING (Arabic):<br/> <br />"We don't have a heater or gas and we can't make a fire because of the rain and all they give us is two loaves of bread for six people."<br/> <br />More than half a million Syrians have fled the spiralling violence in their homeland.<br/> <br />Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey each host more than 130, 000.<br/> <br />Aid workers fear the numbers are going to rise as the conflict escalates around Damascus.
