I have just returned from the Türkiye-Syria border to witness the international community’s response to the Syrian refugee crisis, spearheaded by the International Organisation for Migration (IoM).
The civil war in Syria has claimed approximately 400,000 lives, with many millions of people displaced during and after the fighting. Over half of the 20 million population require humanitarian aid, including 5 million who are acutely in need.
An astonishing 5.7 million Syrians have fled their country to neighbouring nations, mostly to Türkiye which is demonstrating extraordinary hospitality to about 3.5 million Syrian refugees, even building permanent homes for them.
(By Philippa Stroud)
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