Syrians

Syrian businesspeople, who have recreated their companies in Turkey since 2012, have complained about being treated like "refugees" by some circles, adding that, although they were happy, it was not easy to do business in the country.

A Syrian businessman, who had to move to Turkey from Aleppo after his factory was bombed out, said he started from zero.

Four people were injured following a brawl between locals and Syrians in the southern province of Adana late on Feb. 27, Doğan News agency has reported.

The brawl erupted for an unknown reason between neighborhood residents and Syrians who reside in tents in the Bahçelievler neighborhood of Yüreğir district.

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The number of Syrians in Bulgaria is unknown, even to state institutions, which provided BIRN with often contradictory figures following a series of Freedom of Information requests.

On his cell phone, Abdallah shows me a video of Ghada Shouaa, a retired Syrian heptathlete who won her country's first and, so far, only Olympic gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Games.

Turkey has sent around 80 Syrian refugees to various countries of the European Union as part of a migrant agreement between the EU and Turkey that was signed to curb the refugee flow to the bloc.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said 78 Syrian refugees had been sent to Europe to their new homes. 

Aiming to create 100,000 new jobs for Jordanians and Syrian refugees in the next five years, the World Bank's Board of Directors has agreed to offer Jordan $100 million in financing at rates usually reserved for the poorest countries, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim announced on March 27.

In February, for the first time ever the majority of Syrians trying to cross to Greece was made up of women and children, according to Sabine Freizer, an advisor for the Istanbul-based regional office of U.N. Women.

Some 1,300 Syrians are currently jailed in Turkey, Justice Minister Bekir Bozda? announced, noting that 2,400 Syrians in total have been imprisoned due to arrests or convictions. Bozda?'s announcement came late Feb. 17 during a session of the parliament's general assembly while he was responding to questions from opposition deputies on a draft law concerning citizens' personal data.

Five years into the conflict of the neighboring country, almost 70,000 Syrian babies have been born in Turkey so far, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Yalç?n Akdo?an has announced.

During a briefing to the parliament's Planning and Budget Commission on Jan. 28, Akdo?an elaborated on health services provided for more than 2.5 million Syrian refugees in Turkey.

Germany proposes creating up to 500,000 short-term jobs to help Syrian refugees survive in overburdened Middle Eastern host countries, the minister for economic cooperation said during a visit to Jordan on Jan. 26.

Germany will raise the idea at next week's annual Syria aid conference in London, Gerd Mueller told The Associated Press.