On the day marking the one million Syrian refugees in the region, 6 March 2013, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Turkey and the Government of Turkey Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), the coordinator body of the Government of Turkey in respons...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) High Commissioner António Guterres and the Turkish Red Crescent Society (TRC) President Ahmet Lütfi Akar are today signing a cooperative and partnership agreement. The purpose of this agreement as described by Guterres and Akar is to stren...

The High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres welcomes new legislation, the Law on Foreigners and International Protection, recently adopted by the Turkish Government, as a reflection of Turkey’s strong commitment to humanitarian values and principles. UNHCR, which has supported the drafti...

GAZIANTEP, Turkey, April 25 (UNHCR) – Refugee children from Syria have few reasons to smile. The two-year-long conflict in their homeland has brought great suffering to them and their parents. But on Wednesday in Turkey, one group of Syrian refugee children received something to bring a small bit of...

Cooperation protocol has been signed with the Turkish Red Crescent for the joint activities to be carried out within the scope of UNICEF Syria Humanitarian Aid Operation Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey Ambassador Jean- Maurice Ripert , Director General for Multilateral Pol...

UNICEF continues to offer full support to the education activities carried out within the scope of Humanitarian Aid Operation in Syria. The opening ceremony of the “Information and Education Center for Syrian Guests”, provided by the Ministry of Family and Social Policies to Prime Ministry Disaster ...

Carol Batchelor, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Turkey, said that they were expecting the number of Syrian refugees to reach a new high of 3.5 million people, whereas up to 1 million of them were likely to seek asylum in Turkey by the end of this year....

UN refugee agency has warned that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey might reach as high as 1 million by the end of the year. "In case of Turkey, we are already discussing with authorities, if that the number anticipated to be in Turkey by the end of the year might even reach to a million by...

Number of Syrians who fled the violence in their country and took shelter in Turkey reached 500,000. According to the officials of the United Nations that in 21 Turkish camps there are 200,000 Syrians take accommodations and moreover, there are more than officially registered 200,000 others who l...

The largest proportion of Syrian refugees in Turkey today are those living outside of refugee camps, who now outnumber refugees sheltered in the camps, says United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Representative to Turkey Carol Batchelor, describing this as the most challenging aspect of Turke...