With very little money, but an enthusiasm for innovation, two refugees who fled the besieged Syria two years ago came up with an idea to assist those who have fled the war and are trying to adjust to life in Turkey. Despite its own political strife, Turkey has so far[…]
FEATURE by Umarah Hartley This a part of a series focused on the work of international volunteers assisting Syrian refugees living in Turkey. As of February 2016, the United Nations identified 13.5 million Syrians requiring humanitarian assistance, nearly five million of which are refugees outside the country. So far, Turkey,[…]
Following the military coup attempt in July of this year, the Turkish government has been thrown into the spot light. The coup attempt, which was quickly foiled by the citizens of Turkey, caused many critics to question the possible role that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have played within the[…]
During August and September, 2016, VOC’s very own Shahieda Carlie is travelling through Turkey, highlighting all the wonderful things that the iconic country has to offer. This week, she travelled through Istanbul and the picturesque seaside town of Bodrum. Carlie is travelling through Turkey in a delegation that was sent[…]
A Turkish incursion in Syria is proceeding successfully and has already allowed the country to “liberate” a vast swath of land from Islamic State militants and US-backed Kurdish YPG forces, President Tayyip Erdogan stated. “Nobody can expect us to allow a terror corridor on our southern border,” Erdogan told a[…]
Ankara has summoned the US ambassador to Turkey to explain Washington’s “unacceptable” comments about Turkey’s anti-ISIS operation in Syria, rejecting any talk of a ceasefire with the US-backed Kurdish militia and vowing to “eliminate all threats.” Turkish forces crossed into Syria on August 24, targeting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL)[…]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed that Turkey will show the same determination in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Syrian Kurdish fighters, on the fifth day of a cross-border operation that has already left dozens dead in northern Syria. Speaking on Sunday in[…]
The US has agreed to help Turkey capture the border city of Jarablus in Syria to appease Ankara, which was concerned it would fall to Kurdish fighters. US warplanes are carrying out airstrikes in support of the operation, a Pentagon official said. On Wednesday, Turkey sent special forces and tanks[…]
Turkey shelled Islamic State positions in Syria on Tuesday for a second day, in response to mortar fire from across the border, Turkish media reported. Two mortar rounds hit the southeastern Turkish town of Karkamis, close to the border and facing the Syrian town of Jarablus, which is held by[…]
At least 50 people have been killed and 94 more wounded in an explosion at a wedding ceremony in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syria border. The blast, which occurred at around 11pm local time on Saturday in the Akdere neighbourhood of Sahin Bey district, was a “terror[…]
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