The European Union on Thursday announced it was contracting 348 million euros ($393 mln) to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, part of the bloc’s migration cooperation [ More … ]
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that Turkey would officially enter into a state of emergency for three months beginning on Thursday, July 21 2016. In light of the strong Syrian presence in Turkey, [ More … ]
Up to 300,000 Syrian refugees living in Turkey could be given citizenship under a plan to keep wealthy and educated Syrians in the country, a Turkish newspaper reported on Saturday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said [ More … ]
Turkey has granted work permits to 5,502 Syrian refugees in the first six months of the year, according to data from the Ministry of Labour published by local media on Friday. Turkish sources said that [ More … ]
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