Tent city in Turkey celebrates Refugee Day

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Turkey hosts the most refugees in the world and its biggest refugee camp was an orderly metaphor for World Refugee Day last week.

Turkey has an open door policy for refugees from Syria and nearly 2 million Syrians have crossed the border in the past four years.

Suruc camp holds 25,000 people in 7,000 tents which is then split into 15 “neighbourhoods”. It has schools, hospitals, prayer rooms, supermarkets, TV tents, playgrounds and even farmland.

The camp, which was opened in February, shows Turkey’s generosity at a time when many nations talk of building walls, destroying boats, and reducing migrant quotas to keep the refugees out.

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4 Responses

Alan says:

June 26, 2015 at 1:45 pm

Wow, that’s cool to live in a city of tents.
emilym says:

June 29, 2015 at 1:39 pm

you would get to camp every day LUCKY i want to ask mum if i could visit one day
dantelamont says:

July 2, 2015 at 9:23 am

city of tents
me like
AAAmasterbuilder says:

July 2, 2015 at 1:54 pm

Turkey is rather nice to do that. I do not think that we should talk about camping and forget Turkeys generosity.