Refugee camp

Ankara police collected a group of Syrians from the tents and shanty houses where they were living late on Jan. 5, in order to send them to refugee camps in southeastern Turkey.

The European Union on Tuesday announced 10 million euros ($12.3 million) in new humanitarian aid for Syrian civilians in Turkey and Syria.
      

Turkey's widely-admired response to the refugee crisis sparked by the war in neighbouring Syria is now showing its limitations, with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees living in destitution and others being denied entry, Amnesty International warned Nov. 20.
      

Turkey’s major Mediterranean hub of Antalya has barred illegal Syrian refugees from entering the city in a move that local officials have said aims to prevent a “refugee flow” to one of the country’s major tourism centers.

Four foreign citizens have been taken to hospital following a brawl that involved Syrian and Afghan nationals in a refugee camp in Bulgaria, bTV channel reported on Wednesday.

A recently renovated building of the refugee camp in Harmanli, in southern Bulgaria close the border with Turkey, was severely damaged during the accident late on Tuesday.

Syrians fleeing their country’s conflict have found some respite in Istanbul, but many compatriots are not so lucky

Syrian families who have fled their country due to ongoing war have found shelter on Istanbul sidewalks and parks, clutching onto life with the help of locals, but others face harsher conditions elsewhere in Turkey.

Mardin: “When I took office here two years ago,” said the coordinator governor in charge of refugees, Veysel Dalmaz, “There were about 50,000 Syrian refugees in the camps.” As of fall of 2012, Syrians who have entered Turkey, but are living outside the camps are estimated to be in the band of 15,000 to 20,000.”