The agency said a total of 50,000 to 60,000 Serbs have fled Kosovo in that time.

Nearly one million people had fled Kosovo as refugees.

This history has given Turks a feeling of kinship with the people fleeing Kosovo.

That many Serbs would flee Kosovo was inevitable after such a bitter, personal and nasty conflict, which really began early in 1998.

Amnesty International estimated that "nearly one million people have been forced to flee Kosovo".

Krenare Abazaga fled Kosovo with her family two years ago.

"I'm voting for the return of all the Serbs," who were forced out or fled Kosovo, she said.

Here, she has examined refugees who walked over 4,000-foot-high passes to flee Kosovo.

The refugees spoke of being bombed as they fled Kosovo toward Albania.

At the bus stop, women, children and elderly people were preparing to flee Kosovo.