Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency

Almost half of the Syrian female refugees in Turkey do not want to work even if they were provided with a job, according to results from a recent survey conducted by the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD).

The survey, which was conducted among 1,500 Syrian female refugees living in 20 refugee camps in Turkey and 1,200 living in 10 Turkish cities.

Turkey is struggling to educate 350,000 Syrian refugee children, with only around half of all refugee children receiving schooling The number of school-aged children out of the 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Turkey is now more than 350,000, new figures have shown, demonstrating the size of Turkey's ongoing refugee burden.

A letter containing a suspicious substance triggered alarm at the Canadian Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 24, prompting the dispatch of chemical and biological experts.

Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) is planning to build a “camp” for cattle that were left on the Syrian side of the border by refugees fleeing jihadi militants.