U.N. Refugee Agency

The third İzmir International Film and Music Festival, organized with the theme of the relationship between cinema and music since its first year, will start on June 16. The event focuses on cinema-music relations in order to encourage the use of original music in films.

Foreign artists living in Turkey came together in Istanbul to hold a concert to mark World Refugee Day on June 20.

The concert organized by the International Refugee Rights Association was at the Cemil Candaş Şişli Municipality City Cultural Center.

Murat Polat, the concert's music and art director, said the show was broadcast live on the Refugee TV YouTube channel.

Some 82 percent of Syrian refugees in neighboring countries would like to return to their homes if security and service are provided, the Middle East and North Africa Director of UNHCR, the U.N. Refugee Agency, Amin Awad said on Wednesday.

Following the heavy hit it sustained after the global financial crisis in 2008, the EU has been challenged with the mass refugee flow since early 2015 which triggered a widespread debate over political stability, security, protection of its external borders and internal cohesion. Especially after the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels in November 2015 and March this year, respectively, the

Turkish EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r has stressed the readmission deal with the union will not apply to refugees who have already made their way to Greece's islands. 

Turkey will only begin to readmit refugees from Greece once those who are already in EU territory are resettled among European countries, Bozk?r told state-run Anadolu Agency on March 10.

Turkey's EU Minister Volkan Bozk?r has stressed that the readmission deal with the Union will not apply to refugees who have already made their way to Greek islands. 

Turkey will only start readmitting refugees from Greece once those who are already in EU territory are resettled among European countries, Volkan told state-run Anadolu Agency on March 10.

Refugees in the western coastal town of ?zmir attempt to cross the Aegean wearing poor-quality locally produced life vests, further endangering their lives.  

Six children and a woman from a group of 33 Afghan migrants trying to cross into the eastern Turkish province of Van from bordering Iran have frozen to death. 

The migrants were found by Turkish soldiers on patrol near the Iranian border at around 4 a.m. on May 13 after a heavy hail storm in the mountainous area.

UNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie returned to Dohuk on Jan. 25 to visit Syrian refugees and displaced Iraqi citizens in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to offer support and emphasize the dire needs of 3.3 million displaced people in the area.

The policies of the European Union and its member states are putting at risk the lives and rights of refugees in a number of countries, including Turkey, Amnesty International says in a fresh report The policies of the European Union and its member states are putting at risk the lives and rights of refugees in a number of countries, including Turkey, Amnesty International said in a fresh