It is commonly thought that a refugee is defined as a person forced to flee from their own habitat due to armed conflicts or severe natural disaster. Refugee aid is the humanitarian response to such disasters that have caused the lack of fresh drinking water, hygiene, accommodations, safety and the growth of illnesses that can place lives in mortal danger. Principally, humanitarian support in such chaotic conditions centers on preventing death, giving assistance and safety measures for those compelled to desert their usual residences. Aid to refugees is usually depicted as a charitable mission to the displaced. People are generally forced into refugee status due to an armed struggle resulting from the abuse of power and political authority
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At least half of these victims fleeing from disaster are children. The current Syrian refugee emergency represents the greatest dislocation of people in recent history. Literally, millions of men, women and their children have increasingly traversed over the Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders. However, this flow of human misery has increased significantly because of the intensified battles being waged by ISIS in many areas of the Middle East. Intense hostilities in Kobani/Ayn al-Arab, near the Turkish border, compelled more than 200,000 Syrian nationals to enter into Suruc, Turkey, and 150,000 arrived at that Turkish camp in the space of only three days. Thus, presently, more than half of Syria’s population, before the onset of war, is now dislocated and took flight into the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey. Turkey has become the national host nation with the largest number of Syrian-born refugees in the Middle East. Turkey has accepted the most wartime refugees of any nation on the globe. There are now almost two million Syrians refugees in Turkey with children representing around half of this number. This number has been predicted to swell to as many as 2.5 million by the end of 2015 (The New York Times, …show more content…
Worsening safety situations in Iraq resulted in the rapid augmentation of Iraqi refugees. The number of rose to approximately 81,000 who sought refuge inside Turkish territory. By September, 2014, the number of refugees from Turkey’s neighboring states rose to over 100,000. This number is expected to rise to nearly 1.9 million in 2015, of which 1.7 million are projected to be Syrian refugees. UNHCR and the Government of Turkey continue to serve the needs of refugees well. With their joint efforts for the welfare of the displaced, they offer continuing education service, shelter, and medical needs to all seeking refuge in Turkey, regardless of where they are from. Syrian refugees represent the predominant group of people UNHCR worked with in Turkey in 2014 until the present. The large majority of these needy people escaped from war in the Syrian provinces adjoining Turkey. This massive influx of displaced people in peril is likely to continue in 2015 (UNHCR,
At least half of these victims fleeing from disaster are children. The current Syrian refugee emergency represents the greatest dislocation of people in recent history. Literally, millions of men, women and their children have increasingly traversed over the Turkish, Lebanese and Jordanian borders. However, this flow of human misery has increased significantly because of the intensified battles being waged by ISIS in many areas of the Middle East. Intense hostilities in Kobani/Ayn al-Arab, near the Turkish border, compelled more than 200,000 Syrian nationals to enter into Suruc, Turkey, and 150,000 arrived at that Turkish camp in the space of only three days. Thus, presently, more than half of Syria’s population, before the onset of war, is now dislocated and took flight into the neighboring countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Turkey. Turkey has become the national host nation with the largest number of Syrian-born refugees in the Middle East. Turkey has accepted the most wartime refugees of any nation on the globe. There are now almost two million Syrians refugees in Turkey with children representing around half of this number. This number has been predicted to swell to as many as 2.5 million by the end of 2015 (The New York Times, …show more content…
Worsening safety situations in Iraq resulted in the rapid augmentation of Iraqi refugees. The number of rose to approximately 81,000 who sought refuge inside Turkish territory. By September, 2014, the number of refugees from Turkey’s neighboring states rose to over 100,000. This number is expected to rise to nearly 1.9 million in 2015, of which 1.7 million are projected to be Syrian refugees. UNHCR and the Government of Turkey continue to serve the needs of refugees well. With their joint efforts for the welfare of the displaced, they offer continuing education service, shelter, and medical needs to all seeking refuge in Turkey, regardless of where they are from. Syrian refugees represent the predominant group of people UNHCR worked with in Turkey in 2014 until the present. The large majority of these needy people escaped from war in the Syrian provinces adjoining Turkey. This massive influx of displaced people in peril is likely to continue in 2015 (UNHCR,