The Syrian refugee crisis might be permanent for Turkey
About 78 percent of Turkey’s 1.8 million Syrian refugees may have no intent of returning home even if war were to end, according to new survey, covering 375 who were lucky enough to be staying in a refugee camp.
Turkey is host to a growing number of Syrian refugees crossing over the border, which has now totaled 2 million since the beginning Syrian civil war in 2011 with the uprising against the regime, and the subsequent sweeping invasions of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).Particularly ISIL’s eventually doomed siege of the Syrian Kurdish Kobani caused a mass influx into Turkey’s Suruç town of Şanlıurfa, right across the border, starting in late 2014.
Currently only 11 percent of the 1.8 million refugees are being accommodated in refugee camps. The vast number of the refugees have searched for a better life in metropolises, going as far as Istanbul.
40 percent of the refugees surveyed have stated that they had entered Tukey in the past six months while 30 percent had been in Suruç for over a year.
In spite of the difficulties they are suffering, 78 percent of the Syrian refugees surveyed have stated that, even if they had the option, they would not want to move back to Syria, while 16 percent expressing they dream of going to Europe.
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