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Vice PM Akdağ Responds to Kılıçdaroğlu Asking About 30 Billion Dollars Erdoğan Claimed to Have Spent for Syrians

Vice PM Akdağ Responds to Kılıçdaroğlu Asking About 30 Billion Dollars Erdoğan Claimed to Have Spent for Syrians

Vice Prime Minister Akdağ responded to CHP Chair Kılıçdaroğlu asking about the 30 billion Dollars that President Erdoğan claimed to have spent on Syrian refugees, and pointed to investments in road constructions saying: “Do Syrians not walk on these roads?”.

29 November 2017

Police Promise Group Assaulting Syrian Refugees’ Home that ‘Refugees Will Leave’

Police Promise Group Assaulting Syrian Refugees’ Home that ‘Refugees Will Leave’

People gathering in front of a house in which Syrians live have asked the residents to leave. Police and the owner of the house promised the crowd that “the house would be vacated”.

9.7% of Syrian Refugees University Graduates

9.7% of Syrian Refugees University Graduates

Support to Life has said that “It is clear as a day that the Syrian refugees in our country are not lacking any capacity of producing economic value. There is no reason for Turkey to not turn it into an opportunity”.

Woman to Woman Refugee Kitchen

Woman to Woman Refugee Kitchen

The pickles they used to prepare in their hometowns for the winter have now become their glim of hope to survive.

19 January 2017 Nilay Vardar

Fraternity Fairy Tales in Hatay

Fraternity Fairy Tales in Hatay

As part of Project Fraternity Fairy Tales, the theme will be “Happy Mother-Happy Child” in the Fairy Tale Stage to be established at Hatay Narlıca Support to Life House.

21 December 2016

Syrians Must Have Refugee Status First

SUPPORT TO LIFE FOUNDATION

Syrians Must Have Refugee Status First

Support to Life Foundation has urged to back down from discourses that caused social tension for Syrians which have emerged upon Erdoğan’s statement on naturalization of Syrians.

Minister of Interior Ala: Will Naturalize Syrians Whom We Benefit From

Minister of Interior Ala: Will Naturalize Syrians Whom We Benefit From

Ala has noted that they would grant citizenship to Syrians whom they benefit from and they would stick up with this policy with honour. Ala has added that Meskhetian Turks would also be naturalized.

Erdoğan: Dual Citizenship for Syrians

Erdoğan: Dual Citizenship for Syrians

President Erdoğan has commented on granting citizenship to Syrian refugees and noted that action has been taken with regards to confirming Bahoz Erdal getting killed.

Wall on Syrian Border to be Completed by End of Year

Wall on Syrian Border to be Completed by End of Year

The concrete wall to be built on a 350-km long section of the Turkey-Syria border is planned to be completed by the end of the year. Although the aim of the wall has been reasoned with regards to the armed conflicts, the border is also closed to the refugees.

HRW: Turkey Should Open Borders to Refugees

HRW: Turkey Should Open Borders to Refugees

Human Rights Watch has urged international organizations and UN not to remain silent to keeping the Syrian border closed for the last 1.5 years.

HRW: Soldiers of Turkey Killed Refugees on Syria Border

HRW: Soldiers of Turkey Killed Refugees on Syria Border

Human Rights Watch has claimed that Turkey’s border patrol units opened fire on Syrian refugees in March and April, subsequent to this five people including one child lost their lives.

Journalist Kılıç Speaks About Refugees on Macedonian Border

Journalist Kılıç Speaks About Refugees on Macedonian Border

Journalist Bülent Kılıç has told the condition of the refugees who have been waiting to cross into Macedonia for two months: "There are long queues in front of the clinics. They live side by side with toilets".

12 April 2016 Ayça Söylemez

No Legal Basis for ‘Problematic Passengers Room’

No Legal Basis for ‘Problematic Passengers Room’

Lawyer of Syrian refugee Fadi Mansour who was kept in “Problematic Passengers Room” for a year at the airport has explained the legal status of the room, who are kept, and who administrates it.

24 March 2016 Ayça Söylemez

Syrian Refugee Kept in Airport Over 1 Year Without Daylight, Fresh Air, Bed

Syrian Refugee Kept in Airport Over 1 Year Without Daylight, Fresh Air, Bed

“My only dream is to sleep with the lights off” says 27-year-old Fadi Mansour a conscientious objector in Syria and now a refugee held in the airport in Turkey over one year sleeping in a windowless room with light on 24/7 without daylight.

16 March 2016 Ayça Söylemez

Syrian Refugee Detained at Atatürk Airport over 1 Year

Syrian Refugee Detained at Atatürk Airport over 1 Year

Syrian refugee F.M. has been forcefully kept at Atatürk Airport. The Amnesty has announced that F.M. has the risk of being murdered in case he returns to Syria, and shouldn’t be deported.

15 March 2016 Ayça Söylemez

Refugee Policies Based on Social Gender Needed for Syrian Women

Refugee Policies Based on Social Gender Needed for Syrian Women

Freizer from UN, Çorabatır from Asylum and Immigration Research Center, and Ghanem from Syrian Women for Peace Initiative have expressed that UN 1325, CEDAW and İstanbul Convention pave the way for accepting refugee policy sensitive to social gender.

7 March 2016 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Syrian Army Deployed in Aleppo, Refugees on Turkey Border

Syrian Army Deployed in Aleppo, Refugees on Turkey Border

Syrian army has cut off access roads of radical Islamist opponents in Turkey and Aleppo with the help of air support by Russia.

5 February 2016

'Our Future Uncertain, We Need to Know Rules and Rights'

SYRIANS PREFERRING TO LIVE IN İSTANBUL ON REFUGEE CONDITIONS

'Our Future Uncertain, We Need to Know Rules and Rights'

We have spoken in a trilingual bookstore in Fatih with two Syrians who have fled Syrian civil war and settled in İstanbul, on why they chose to live here, their issues and their expectations.

21 December 2015 Beyza Kural

Suggestions for Syrian Refugee Children to Access Education

Suggestions for Syrian Refugee Children to Access Education

32 non-governmental organizations made a mutual statement and expressed Syrian refugee children can’t take advantage of right to education and indicated it was an obligation for the state not a favor. Organizations proposed solutions.

Two Women Helping Syrian Refugees Deported

Two Women Helping Syrian Refugees Deported

Two EU citizens detained during the marches of Syrian refugees are being deported. Three detained Syrian refugees are kept waiting in Repatriation Center.

28 September 2015 Çiçek Tahaoğlu

Police Stop Refugees Walking from İstanbul to Edirne

Police Stop Refugees Walking from İstanbul to Edirne

Syrian refugees waiting in İstanbul Bus Terminal started to walk towards Edirne province but they were stopped by riot policemen.

21 September 2015

Refugees in Edirne and İstanbul Bus Terminals

BEYZA KURAL OBSERVES

Refugees in Edirne and İstanbul Bus Terminals

Syrian refugees spend the night in bus terminals and at the waysides. The police don’t allow refugees carrying bags to enter the mosque in İstanbul Bus Terminal.

18 September 2015 Beyza Kural

Photojournalists Express their Opinions about ‘That Photo’

SHOULD IT BE PUBLISHED OR NOT?

Photojournalists Express their Opinions about ‘That Photo’

bianet asked the opinions of photojournalists Bülent Kılıç from AFP, Hüseyin Özdemir from Milliyet, Özcan Yurdalan from Nar Photos and freelance photojournalists Ahmet Şık and Cem Türkel.

3 September 2015

Two Refugee Boats Sink: 11 People Die

Two Refugee Boats Sink: 11 People Die

Two boats carrying refugees from Turkey to Kos Island of Greece sank and left 11 people dead and 5 people lost.

2 September 2015

Video News – Joy of Syrians after Set a Foot on Greece

Video News – Joy of Syrians after Set a Foot on Greece

Syrian refugees’ journey to Lesbos Island of Greece from Turkey by boats goes on. Serdar Değirmencioğlu took the photograph of a boat which was approaching to the land.

27 August 2015 Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu

"10 Boats Have Come in Two Days to the Bay I stay in”

SERDAR M. DEĞİRMENCİOĞLU IN LESBOS ISLAND

"10 Boats Have Come in Two Days to the Bay I stay in”

Serdar Değirmencioğlu said the refugees, most of them were children or teenagers, came with boats from Turkey to Lesbos (Mytilini) Island and there were no facilities for the refugees in the island.

19 August 2015 Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu

3,000 Syrians Cross the Turkish Border

3,000 Syrians Cross the Turkish Border

Escaped from ISIS, 3,000 Syrians crossed the border by passing through Urfa province. Syrians were taken to tent cities after the registration.

Race and Racism in Modern Turkey

Race and Racism in Modern Turkey

Ninety years since the establishment of the Republic, in an ever more complex society, the limitations and contradictions of Turkish national identity are coming to the fore more and more.

12 November 2014 Bülent Gökay

“Refugee Camps in Suruç Battle With Epidemics”

“Refugee Camps in Suruç Battle With Epidemics”

Deniz Erdoğdu from Turkish Doctors Union told bianet that while conditions in refugee camps located in the southeastern district of Suruç were not so terrible, he warned about certain infections could turn into epidemics in a matter of days.

10 November 2014 Elif Akgül

Syrian Refugees At Risk of Being Returned

Syrian Refugees At Risk of Being Returned

Amnesty International informed that around 100 refugees from Syria are at risk of being returned to the war-torn city of Kobane, urging Turkish authorities to release the refugees from their unlawful detention immediately.

20 October 2014

“Don’t Write As You Please”

“Don’t Write As You Please”

Stop Racism and Nationalism Platform is to file a complaint against columnist Yılmaz Özdil for using hate speech in one of his articles.

16 October 2014

Turkey’s New Migration Policy: Control Through Bureaucratization

Turkey’s New Migration Policy: Control Through Bureaucratization

With the approximately five billion Turkish lira in public funding spent on protection for Syrian refugees over the last three years, the Turkish host population is no longer as receptive as it once was to serving as a refugee hosting ground.

7 October 2014 Kelsey P. Norman

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