Syrian Problem in Turkey!

While reading these articles, you may think that this is a normal migration event, but it is not. Before I get into the article, I'll mention a few things.

The migration of Syrians has started to become very serious. Even though the situation is starting to normalize in their own country, although we are an earthquake country, although we have not yet overcome the effects of the earthquake, although we have a terrorism problem, and this country cannot take care of its own people; Hundreds of thousands of people collect bread from garbage. Millions of people cannot make ends meet. Thousands of marriages end due to financial difficulties. Hundreds of thousands of students cannot attend school due to financial difficulties. And many more... While our own problems are so great, people who immigrated from Syria are enjoying themselves here with the rights given to them, by showing off to people.
Let them do it. Our young people can go to university departments without difficulty and study but cannot enter after years of study due to the disgraceful education system. Let them read it. While we have citizens who commit suicide because they cannot pay their rent, "https://l24.im/XrO" newly built houses are allocated to them. Let it be done.


While our people are starving, they are given monthly food aid. Let it be done. But if they do it humanely... We are starting to hear endless Syrian news. Finally, a Syrian broke into a house in Izmir and murdered a 12-year-old girl. Everything is okay, but only up to here. The people of this country opened their doors to you because you were in a difficult situation. It's not like you're here to run around like a puppy. You travel so easily; The people of this country forbid you a sip of water. You cannot find shelter underground, let alone the shelters you are placed in.


People having to leave the lands where they were born and raised due to differences of belief, armed conflicts, natural disasters, political and economic reasons is an event as old as human history. In the last century, the increasing conflict environment around the world, ethnic and faith-based violence, human rights violations and economic crises have led to an increase in the number of people migrating and seeking asylum.
Today, the ease of transportation, rapid developments in communication technologies and the accompanying globalization enable the migration movement to become a mass human movement in a very short time and gain an international dimension. The increase in the number of people seeking international protection and having to migrate due to developments in the world negatively affects Turkey.


Turkey is an important transit route in terms of international migration mobility between regions where conflicts and political instability occur and western countries with high levels of welfare and human rights standards. As it is geographically located on international migration routes, it has become a transit country and also a destination country due to its economic power. The most current example of this is the situation of more than two million Syrian citizens who had to leave the land where they were born and raised and took refuge in Turkey due to the instability and conflict environment in their country. For Turkey, which ensures that Syrians are not sent back and that they gain basic human rights with a historical sense of responsibility, the economic burden of meeting the shelter, nutrition, health and education needs of Syrians is increasing day by day.

The influx of refugees from Syria to Turkey started on 29.04.2011, when 250-300 Syrian citizens fleeing the conflicts in Syria requested asylum in Turkey. Turkey, which was not among the top ten countries hosting the most refugees according to the data of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2011, when the Syrian crisis began, started to rank first in the list of countries hosting the most refugees at the end of 2014, with the increase in the number of Syrian refugees it hosted.
Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon, the first three countries in the ranking, host thirty percent of the world's refugees. Around four million people in Syria had to migrate out of the country. According to UNHCR data, displaced Syrians have mostly taken refuge in five neighboring countries: Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Türkiye has become the country that hosts the most refugees among the countries neighboring Syria. Rich and powerful countries such as Russia, China, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have completely closed their doors to Syrians.

The profile of Syrians under temporary protection in Turkey and the universal refugee profile is almost the same. However, social acceptance of Syrian refugees in Turkey has been very smooth and rapid. The biggest factor in this is that we have kinship relations with our citizens in our border provinces and that they are largely of the same ethnicity and religion, and the same language is spoken. Although they have kinship ties and cultural differences, Syrian refugees have positive and negative effects on Turkey in social, cultural and economic areas.


Many political parties in Turkey are of the opinion that with the end of the civil war in Syria, it is time for Syrians to return to their country. The majority of parties operating in Turkish political life either announced a new action plan on this issue or expressed it in their party programs. As a result of the ruling AK Party's "open door" policy, millions of Syrians who left their homes due to the civil war in Turkey's southern neighbor Syria took refuge in Turkey.

According to the data dated 21.12.2023, the distribution of foreigners in Turkey with a residence permit by province and the distribution of Syrians under temporary protection by province have been determined. Accordingly, there are a total of 3 million 222 thousand 12 Syrians in temporary protection status throughout Turkey.

However, many political parties, academics and some of the public are of the opinion that these numbers do not reflect the truth and that the actual figure is much higher due to the high birth rate. Some circles add to this number the population of approximately five million for which Turkey has undertaken the responsibility of providing services as a result of the operations in Syrian territory.

The majority of people in Turkey see Syrian refugees as the cause of many social and economic problems. The deepening of economic problems and the granting of residence, work, education and citizenship to Syrians cause an increase in the discomfort felt in many segments of society for a long time. Many political parties in Turkey are of the opinion that with the end of the civil war in Syria, it is time for Syrians to return to their country. The majority of parties operating in Turkish political life either announced a new action plan on this issue or expressed their opinions on this issue in their party programs.