How many refuges can one person tolerate? A question of denunciation and not a real one. As for a large segment of the Syrian people, it is a burden and burden that has been heavier on their shoulders over the years and decades.
While some differentiate between asylum and displacement, the feeling of displacement and estrangement is one, and the feeling of loss and forced displacement from one’s home is one.
** The language of numbers
In the context of displacement and asylum, United Nations statistics showed on its official website that over the past 11 years, more than 13 million Syrians have had to seek refuge and flee from their homeland, either outside the country or displaced within its borders, 5.6 million of whom have sought refuge in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt, and 6. 9 million Syrians have been displaced within the country.
This wave of refugees has led to the presence of 5.9 million Syrian citizens who need assistance in securing safe housing, and they face challenges in terms of accessing basic services such as education and health care, according to the UNHCR and quoting the official website of the United Nations.
** The earthquake of February 6.. and more numbers
After nearly 3.7 million Syrians sought refuge in Turkey to escape death and in search of hope for a decent life, or at least to live, more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees, registered with the United Nations, settled in the states of southern Turkey, some of them came directly and some had to go through a chain From the stages of displacement, asylum and homelessness, until they reached their home in Turkey, according to the United Nations.
Returning to the beginning question, when the February 6 earthquake hit southern Turkey and northern Syria with a magnitude of 8.7, and what followed with another earthquake of the same strength, and thousands of aftershocks, all of this led to a new displacement of thousands of Syrian families, as the earthquake affected about 1.75 million Syrian refugees, and according to For a statement published by the United Nations.
** But.. to where?
Turkish media reported that about 18,000 Syrian refugees returned to their country from Turkey, about two weeks after the devastating wave of earthquakes that struck southern Turkey, according to the BBC.
In this regard, Muhammad Othman, director of the medical program at the Moolham Volunteering Team, says that the priority of the program, two weeks after the earthquake occurred, was to evacuate the affected places, in addition to providing buses to transport the Syrians to the destinations they wanted to go to.
However, a large percentage of Syrians in Turkey did not have the option to return to Syria under the current government, including Aisha, a Syrian mother who took refuge in Turkey with her two daughters after the death of her husband, who joined the ranks of the Free Army in Syria, and after she believed that she had started a new life and settled in In southern Turkey, she found herself experiencing displacement again.
Aisha says: "We don’t know what will happen to us. We are left without a home or homeland to which we can return" Noting that the presence of the current government in Syria is the reason that prevents her and her family from returning to Syria.
** Are there options for Syrian refugees in Turkey?
In this conversation, the options of the Syrians who sought refuge in southern Turkey and whose lives were turned upside down by the earthquake are not many.
According to a report published by Al Jazeera Net, only some options are available, the first of which revolves around temporary livelihood, such as working in various workshops, or daily work, and what can return to the individual the amount of his day’s sustenance only. The second option is Turkish aid, and the last available option is the individual and voluntary initiatives that were formed after the earthquake disaster among the Syrian refugees, so that the situation of these families remains unknown in light of all the tragedies they have been subjected to.
