Publicatie: De Tijd GAZIANTEP- Meer dan de helft van alle Syrische kinderen in Turkije gaat niet naar school. In de plaats daarvan werken ze in fabrieken of bedelen ze op straat om hun families te helpen overleven. Een meisje van negen dat de terrassen afstruint…
Publication: Al-Monitor REYHANLI, Turkey — Dima* is a confident 21-year-old with pale skin and big brown eyes. Her black headscarf is wrapped loosely around her head above her pink dress. She has two small children and a husband, but he currently works as a cab driver in Lebanon. Every month, Adly sends…
Publication: Al-Monitor KILIS, Turkey — With her pale face and dark circles under her eyes, Amal looks like she hasn’t slept in days. And she hasn’t, she tells Al-Monitor, because of the constant explosions in her neighborhood. Two days before, Amal and her children fled…
Publication: Al-Monitor GAZIANTEP, Turkey — A young Syrian rebel fighter recounts the horrific experience of spending more than three months imprisoned by the radical Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). It had been 20 days since Mohammed’s arrival in Turkey, after having spent more than three…
Publicatie: Algemeen Dagblad KILIS- Terwijl de wereld zich met andere conflicten bezighoudt, gaat het drama in Syrië gewoon door. De vatbommen, olievaten vol explosieven en metaal, worden nog steeds vanuit helikopters op woonwijken gegooid. ‘Waarom doet niemand iets?’ In een park op een paar kilometer afstand…
Publication: Al-Monitor REYHANLI, Turkey- Children at a Syrian field hospital near the Turkish border accept the war as the new normal. Three weeks ago, 15-year-old Mohammed was a normal, healthy boy. Although he lived in a war-torn country, he played with his friends and bought…
Written for Al Jazeera Diyarbakir, Turkey – The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has begun the withdrawal of its fighters from Turkish territory. In the Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, many mothers lost their children during the fighting, and most are still living in the mountain camps. The…