Published : 25-07-2016
A group of Palestinian Syrian families, who are stranded at the Turkish borders, appealed the international humanitarian organizations, Palestinian Embassy, and General Commissioner for Refugees, via the AGPS, to intervene in order to help them to enter Turkish territory. The families are no longer able to return to their camps and compounds due to the Syrian security barriers on the way back. The barriers know that those families were heading towards the Turkish territory, which it describes by treason.
One of the stranded on the Turkish border confirmed that there are 20 families, approximately 100 people; including children, women, and elderly are stuck for more than seven months in Azaz District north of Aleppo near the Syrian-Turkish border. He noted that they had tried during that period to enter Turkish territory but they failed due to the spread of the Turkish army and the restrictions on the Syrian border, moreover, anxiety associated with smuggling to the Turkish territory and the fear of being targeted by the Turkish army.
In addition, they also suffer of the lack of money, since every person needs 700$ in order to enter to Turkey, and they could not return back inside Syria fearing of being arrested by the Syrian security checkpoints, forcing most of Palestinian families to stay at borders.
In terms of humanitarian aspect, they suffer of miserable and harsh living conditions and bad psychological status, since they were forced to sleep in the open among the olive trees, which impacted negatively on their health and psychological condition, especially children.
At the conclusion of appeals, Palestinian refugees demanded to open a safe passage for entering Turkish territory despite the difficult and challenging security conditions.
It is noteworthy that Turkey has established control towers described by "smart," where it monitors any moving object approaching the Turkish-Syrian border; in addition, those towers launch warnings with Turkish, English, and Arabic languages for each moving object approaching 300 meters from the border.
A group of Palestinian Syrian families, who are stranded at the Turkish borders, appealed the international humanitarian organizations, Palestinian Embassy, and General Commissioner for Refugees, via the AGPS, to intervene in order to help them to enter Turkish territory. The families are no longer able to return to their camps and compounds due to the Syrian security barriers on the way back. The barriers know that those families were heading towards the Turkish territory, which it describes by treason.
One of the stranded on the Turkish border confirmed that there are 20 families, approximately 100 people; including children, women, and elderly are stuck for more than seven months in Azaz District north of Aleppo near the Syrian-Turkish border. He noted that they had tried during that period to enter Turkish territory but they failed due to the spread of the Turkish army and the restrictions on the Syrian border, moreover, anxiety associated with smuggling to the Turkish territory and the fear of being targeted by the Turkish army.
In addition, they also suffer of the lack of money, since every person needs 700$ in order to enter to Turkey, and they could not return back inside Syria fearing of being arrested by the Syrian security checkpoints, forcing most of Palestinian families to stay at borders.
In terms of humanitarian aspect, they suffer of miserable and harsh living conditions and bad psychological status, since they were forced to sleep in the open among the olive trees, which impacted negatively on their health and psychological condition, especially children.
At the conclusion of appeals, Palestinian refugees demanded to open a safe passage for entering Turkish territory despite the difficult and challenging security conditions.
It is noteworthy that Turkey has established control towers described by "smart," where it monitors any moving object approaching the Turkish-Syrian border; in addition, those towers launch warnings with Turkish, English, and Arabic languages for each moving object approaching 300 meters from the border.
