Forced migration

The Health Ministry is working on a plan to allow Syrian doctors and nurses in the country to treat Syrian refugees

Bulgarian Red Cross has set up a language camp for refugee children, the press office of the organization announced.

It is organized by the Refugee-Migrant Service to the Bulgarian Red Cross and takes place between September 8-14.

Turkey is world famous for its hospitality. Yet the polls also show that Turks only like themselves; they don’t want, for instance, Jewish or Christian neighbors and there are not many foreign countries in the world that Turks feel sympathy for. This certainly shows Turkey’s inner contradictions.

By most measures, Turkey has been generous to the 1.36 million Syrians who fled there from the civil war to the south. The country hosts over a quarter of all Syrian refugees. It does so with far less foreign aid than its neighbors, meaning Turkish taxpayers shoulder a disproportionate cost .

The number of asylum seekers in Bulgaria has increased five times in 2013 compared with 2012, according to a report on the implementation of the revised National Program for Demographic Development until 2013.

In 2013, the number of asylum seekers in Bulgaria exceeded 7,000, which is over five times more than in 2012 and ten times more than in the previous years.

A whole new generation of Syrian refugees is being born in Turkey, as the number of Syrians in the country heads toward 1.4 million Some 30,000 Syrian children have been born in Turkish cities where there are refugee camps since the beginning of the war more than three years ago. Another 30,000 Syrian babies are believed to have been born in various other provinces of Turkey.

In refugee settings, family planning is not a priority: The initial response in any widespread displacement is focused on providing food, shelter, and protection. Refugee aid in Turkey is no longer simply a matter of initial response, however: The country has received around one million refugees from Syria over the last two years.

I am often asked about the housing prices in Turkey lately. My questioners often want to confirm their sense that the housing bubble is going to burst, that a year or two down the line and they’ll be able to say “I told you so.” Have a look at the table below. It shows the increase in housing prices across Turkey between January 2010 and May 2014.

Eighty-two illegal refugees who human traffickers had promised to transport to Romania have been rescued after being marooned on a small boat 24 miles off the coast of Istanbul.

The number of people displaced inside Ukraine had more than doubled in the past four weeks due to the fighting in the country's East, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.

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