Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency

Fewer and fewer migrants are being seen on the streets and in the parks of the Aegean province of ?zmir as Syrian refugees preparing to sail for Greece have been gathered and sent to tent camps, after being initially brought to a nearby stadium, CNNTürk has reported.

Turkey's Interior Ministry Migration Management Directorate and Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) have been working on a new bill to deport Syrian migrants who were once subjected to illegal migration attempts in Turkish territories, ?zmir Governor Mustafa Toprak has said.

At least one person has been killed and another wounded in a blast at a nitrogen factory near the western Turkish province of Bursa, according to rescue officials.

The explosion occurred in a factory in the town of Gemlik early July 19. The reason of the explosion remains unknown.

Turkey's disaster management agency is working to build a new refugee camp in Kilis, a town on the Syrian border, in the face of a fresh, massive influx from its southern neighbor as a result of a potential attack by the Islamic jihadists on the Azaz province, one of most populous regions in northwest Syria. 

The governor?s offices in Turkey?s western and southern cities have issued official notices to regarding the Syrian refugees living in city centers and on the streets in the resort towns.

As many as 121 workers in a lighting factory have been poisoned after an unknown smell came from outside in Turkey?s northwestern province of Tekirda?, Tekirda? Governor Enver Saliho?lu said on July 1.
 

Turkey?s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has joined the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, in a move to bolster cooperation with the Brussels-based organization. 

A total of 5,000 pharmacies in Istanbul have made a joint decision to not provide medicine to Syrian refugees, claiming the state is not meeting the expenses of the medicine.

Nurten Saydan, the president of the Pharmacists' Federation of Employers' Organization (TE?S), said they have agreed as pharmacists in Istanbul.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an?s wife Emine Erdo?an visited a refugee camp in Suruç, a town in the southeastern province of ?anl?urfa, to mark the official opening of the facility.

The camp hosts Syrian Kurds who have fled their homes in Kobane on the Turkish border after attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), who had besieged the town for around five months.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has praised efforts by Turkey's disaster agency, the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD), for Syrian refugees while also slamming opposition parties.