As of today, 61.450 Syrian Citizens have been sheltered

REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
PRIME MINISTRY
DISASTER AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PRESIDENCY

PRESS RELEASE(AUGUST 15, 2012)

UNINTERRUPTED HUMANITARIAN AID IS CONTINUING FOR SYRIAN CITIZENS

              As of today, 61.450 Syrian Citizens have been sheltered in 8 tent cities, 1 temporary reception centre and a container city established by Prime Ministry AFAD.

              5 tent cities in Hatay, 2 tent cities in Şanlıurfa, a tent city in Gaziantep and a container city in Kilis, has a capacity to shelter 12.000 people, have been established by our Presidency.

              In response to displacement lived due to the interior conflicts in Syria, camps have been established in 4 cities and all kind of humanitarian relief for  more than 90.000 Syrian Citizens have been supplied by Prime Ministry AFAD until today.

                 Apart from camp centers, Syrian Citizens have been also sheltered in regional boarding schools, dormitories, gymnasiums in Kilis, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaras, Adana and Osmaniye until the establishment of new tent cities.

              On the other hand, the studies for establishment of tent cities in Gaziantep, Karkamış, Gaziantep, Nizip, Kahramanmaraş City Center, Osmaniye-Cevdediye have been ongoing in order to settle the Syrian Citizens coming.

              It has been provided services such as sheltering, food, health, security, social activities, education, worship, translatorship, communication, banking and other services in tent cities and containers by related organizations and institutions within the coordination of our Presidency.

              Our Presidency, which is authority organization to conduct cooperation in time of national and international disaster and emergencies on behalf of our country, has conducted the coordination in tent cities and container city. 

             The camps, have been established with allocation provided by our Presidency, include schools, mosques, centers of commercial, police and medical, press brifing agency, playing field for children, units for watching TV, reservoir, purification center, transformers and generators.

             Hot meals for Syrian Citizens have been supplied three times a day in tent cities and container city.          

             On August 14 - 15, 2012, 1.030 Syrian Citizens went into our country and 116 Citizens voluntarily returned to their country.

              •Until today, 92.855 Syrian Citizens have gone into our country.

              •Until today, 31.405 Citizens returned to their country.

              •As of today, 10.931 Syrian Citizens in Hatay, 8.236 people in Gaziantep ( 1.615 of whom are in schools, dormitories and gymnasiums), 14.093 people in Kilis (1.959 of whom are in schools and dormitories), 22.508 people in Şanlıurfa have been sheltered. Furthermore, it has been temporarily put 1.810 people in Kahramanmaraş, 2.029 people in Adana, 1.322 people in Osmaniye up. In total, the figure reaches 60.929.

              •521 people have been in hospitals, 471 of whom are injured and patients.

             •Included the injured and patients, the total number of Syrian Citizens in our country is 61.450.           

            Deep respect and appreciate.

                                                                                Press and Public Relations Consultancy