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Sep
23
2023
By BURCU KARAKAS
Syrians feel growing pressure from Turkey’s anti-migrant political wave

Syrians feel growing pressure from Turkey’s anti-migrant political wave

WORLD
ANTI-MIGRANT sentiment, economic woes and political pressures are leading some of the 3.3 million Syrians living in Turkey to plan a return to Syria or seek shelter in Europe, according to migrants interviewed by Reuters. They are concerned that rhetoric against migrants may rear up in campaigning for March local elections, echoing efforts to tap into nationalist sentiments during May's general elections. Many of those now living in Istanbul face a more immediate worry - authorities' September 24 deadline for them to leave the city if they are registered in other Turkish provinces. One 32-year-old Syrian said he is saving…
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Jul
14
2023
By The African Mirror
Syrians still endure poverty despite relative calm and renewed Arab ties

Syrians still endure poverty despite relative calm and renewed Arab ties

WORLD
NESMA Daher survived years of war in a Damascus suburb that was on the frontlines of Syria's conflict. But well after the guns fell silent in her area and even as her country's regional isolation thaws, she says life only gets harder. A widow from Douma, a rebel-held town until 2018 when government forces took it back, Daher says sometimes she can only feed her four children one meal a day. The family survives on cash assistance from an NGO equivalent to about $7 a month. Her youngest son, 12, has quit school to work at a factory. "From the…
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Mar
13
2021
By The African Mirror
A decade after Syria’s war began, memories haunt a family it tore apart

A decade after Syria’s war began, memories haunt a family it tore apart

WORLD
SEHAMU Hamu lost her husband, son and grand-daughter on the same night in 2016 when a missile struck their home in Douma, a rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the civil war. Now, aged 74 and confined to a wheelchair because of a heart condition, she looks after her son's four surviving children, a widowed daughter and a second daughter along with her husband and their children. Their plight is not unusual in a country where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed during a decade of violence and millions more…
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