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the fluctuation of the oil prices due to the instability in the Middle East. "Syria crisis: Where key countries stand." BBC News . BBC News, 30 Oct. 2015. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. This article is a brief summary of the countries’ like the U.S, Russia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabis stands on the Syrian crisis. This article is informing the reader about political and economical connection of these countries and Syria. The main goal of this article is to clarify the stands of the countries that are playing…

need of help inside syria. Day after day refugees continue to stream across the borders of Syria into neighbouring nations of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq. Devastating Urban host communities and creating new cultural tensions. Hundreds of thousands of refugees are every day attempting dangerous trips across the Mediterranean sea all the way from Turkey to Greece, Hoping and praying they will find a better and more nice future in…

Mediterranean climate is less dominant than most climate regions located in the Middle East. The Mediterranean climate region is close to large bodies of water for example the Mediterranean Sea. Countries that have this climate region are Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq. (“Climate and Vegetation Map” on page 362.) These different climate regions have a major effect on where people live. Looking at the population density map it shows more people live by large bodies of water because there is…

Memories of turkey season All hunters around Hector have been looking forward for April 15, which is the first day of turkey season! It brings families and friends together, and makes special memories. Here are a few that come to mind, my uncle/father “my favorite part of turkey hunting is hearing that first big tom of the day gobbling head off. My favorite memories are hunting with my kids and Jake/dad, seeing the smile on y'alls face my every dollar and hour spent worth it.” Here is a…

Regarded as a nation bridging Europe and Asia, Turkey holds control over the amount of refugees entering Europe from mostly neighbouring Middle Eastern countries as well as African countries and the Indian subcontinent. Due to the large amount of migrants crossing through Turkey, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) made an agreement to “provide some degree of protection and status determination” for asylum seekers and refugees. The UNHCR defines a refugee as a person “who is unable or unwilling to…

The beautiful weather, the lively people and the delicious delicacies, is what makes Greece the perfect tourist destination. While Greece is filled with many appreciated islands, as well as an impressive lifestyle and culture, it is infused with stunning architecture that creates emotional memories. The population of Greece is more than 10 million people, that has an area of 59, 949 square miles (131, 958 kilometers), Greece gets approximately 16.5 million tourists to visit. This constitutes…

part of a minority group. Most of the country, 99.8%, practices the Muslim religion, and the other small percentage is mostly Christians and Jews. Their official language is Turkish but people do speak Kurdish and other minority languages as well. Turkey is located in Southeastern Europe and Southwestern Asia, bordering the Black Seam between Bulgaria and Georgia. It also borders the Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, between Greece and Syria. They have hot, dry summers with mild, wet…

throughout the story. When Toumani first enters Turkey, she has a sense of fear. She is constantly on edge because she believes that everyone can tell she is Armenian and will judge her based on that. Toumani starts to hide her heritage in the hopes that she can still learn more about Turkey without people creating a bias based on her ethnicity. In chapter ten, Toumani comes to the realization that her original thoughts about being in Turkey are quite paradoxical: “I was not the one with the…

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…

to the Kurdish-Turkish relationship. The Kurds who are reported to be over 35 million and commonly discussed as a nation that does not have any state (McDowall, 1997). As explained by McDowall, the homeland of the Kurds happens to neighbor Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq and as a result, the various governments in the four different countries relates differently with the Kurds. According to historian William Westermann (1991), “The…