People from Syria continue to flow into neighboring countries in masses due to the civil war in the country. Nobody can predict when the instability in Syria will end, and the civil war is getting worse with each passing day. One of the critical stages in this process was the chemical weapons attack that took place in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, 2013. While the regime and opposition blame one another for the chemical weapons attacks, the majority of the international community blames the Syrian regime for the attack. The attack brought up the U.S. military operation to the agenda, but after Russia's suggestion for Syria to put its chemical weapons under international control, the U.S. suspended its plans for military strike.
However, the chemical weapons attack once again laid the humanitarian dimension of the civil war bare. The possibility that other chemical weapons attacks might take place and the U.S. might carry out a military strike increased the migration flow from Syria into neighboring countries. Turkey is one of the critical points of this migration flow. More than 200 thousand Syrian refugees stay in camps as from October 2013, and more of them live in various parts of Turkey out of camps. A substantial of the Syria refugees consists of women and children.
ORSAM has been closely interested in the humanitarian aspect of the civil war since the beginning of the civil war. We've published hundreds of interviews which reflect the life stories of Syrian refugees, migrating to Turkey for various reasons. This report contains a certain part of the aforesaid interviews. We categorized the interviews with Syrian refugees in three groups such as; the interviews with Syrian women, men and those from social institutions. The study consists of the interviews conducted with Syrian men from various professions. Thus, we present these interviews to the attention of the public opinion by hoping that it positively contributes to Syrian refugees; and we extend our thanks to everyone who contributed to the study.
