Total Persons of Concern

2,620,553

Last Updated 15 Feb 2016

Source - UNHCR, Government of Turkey

Registered Syrian Refugees

2,620,553

Households

n/a

Last Updated 15 Feb 2016

Source - UNHCR, Government of Turkey

Demography

Male (50.8%)	Age	(49.2%) Female
10.5%	0 - 4		9.5%
10.3%	5 - 11		9.9%
7.2%	12 - 17		6.8%
21.1%	18 - 59		21.2%
1.8%	60 +		1.8%

As of 6 March 2015, information made available by the authorities indicated there were no pending registration appointments of Syrian refugees.

Registered Syrian Refugees by Date

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Syrian Refugees in Turkey, 2013: Field Survey Results

17 Jan 2014
A detailed summary of the results of a survey conducted by AFAD among Syrian refugees in Turkey. The aim of the survey was to elucidate information about demographic, educational and socio-economic status. In brief, this is the official profile of Syrian refugees in Turkey given by the Government of Turkey in 2013.
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UNHCR 2016 funding - Syria Situation response 2016 - 9 February 2016

09 Feb 2016
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UNHCR 2016 funding - Syria Situation response 2016 - 2 February 2016

02 Feb 2016
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UNHCR funding - Syria Situation response 2015 - 26 January 2016

26 Jan 2016
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Turkey Regional Refugee & Resilience Plan 2016-2017

24 Jan 2016
The Government of Turkey is the main responder to the emergency. Under the leadership of the central government, a field coordination structure is established at the governorate level, with the provincial governors taking the lead in field coordination, with the field presence of AFAD, DGMM and other concerned ministries. 3RP partners are providing inputs to these government coordination meetings. As Turkey leads the response and has already developed a rights based national asylum framework, the overall strategy of the 3RP responses is to strengthen national capacity to ensure sustainability and national ownership of interventions.
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3RP Protection Dashboard December 2015

15 Jan 2016
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Who's Doing What Where?

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IOM
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WFP

	Health
WHO

	Livelihood
IOM

	Shelter
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Needs Assessment Registry

Title	Status	Organizations	Last Updated
Quality Education for Young Refugees from Syria: A mapping exercise on education for young refugees from Syria (aged 12 – 25) 12 Aug 2014	Planned		12 Aug 2014

Coordination Toolkit

48th Edition of Field Exchange: Turkey

The Turkey section is part of a 172-page issue, which can be downloaded from the Regional page, and from www.ennonline.net/fe x.

Highlights

Construction of 7 of the 10 pre-fab health facilities procured by UNHCR has started in refugee camps and urban areas in S-E Turkey.
30 Apr 2014

UNHCR and UNDP signed an agreement to undertake a project for strengthening the resilience and absorption capacity of the host communities in 4 provinces.
01 Apr 2014

More than 20,000 Syrian refugees have arrived in Turkey since the start of the year in the biggest influx since early 2013. Over recent days more than 500 people have been arriving daily across official crossing points, sometimes as many as 1,000-2,000 daily.
11 Feb 2014

23 mobile registration units have been procured by UNHCR to support AFAD with registration activities of Syrian refugees living in the urban areas.
27 Jan 2014

UNHCR started distribution of cash assistance to vulnerable non-camp Syrian refugees living in 5 locations: Kilis, Gaziantep, Nizip, Reyhanli and Yayladagi.
27 Jan 2014

Funding Requirements (2015)

Total Appeal	$624,089,475
Received to Date	$272,640,270
Gap	$351,449,205

Coverage	44%
Last Updated 26 Jan 2016

Links

	AFAD, Disaster and Emergency Managemenet Presidency of the Prime Ministry Provides daily updates.
	MFA, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Instant announcement of Minister's statements or press briefings
	unhcr.org in Turkey UNHCR Office public site

Syria Refugee Crisis in the Media

	UNHCR to seek new help for refugees in Turkey, push resettlement
	Reuters, 16 Jan 2016
	The United Nations' refugee agency will seek additional resources for Turkey, the world's largest host of refugees, and push for more resettlement, its head said on Saturday, as the civil war in Syria is set to enter its sixth year. The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called for a...
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	UN refugee chief visits refugee camp in Turkey
	Anadolu Agency, 15 Jan 2016
	The new head of the UN’s refugee agency visited a camp in southeastern Turkey on Friday. Filippo Grandi, who became the High Commissioner for Refugees earlier this month, arrived at the camp in Gaziantep province’s Nizip district where some of the near 2.5 million refugees housed by Turkey ar...
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	Seven factors behind movement of Syrian refugees to Europe
	UNHCR, 25 Sep 2015
	This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 25 September 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Additional Speaker: Amin Awad, Director UNHCR Bureau for Middle East & N.Africa / Regional Refuge...
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	UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt calls for action on World Refugee Day
	UNHCR, 20 Jun 2015
	UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt has been commemorating World Refugee Day with Syrian refugees in Turkey, which has overtaken Pakistan to become the world's largest refugee-hosting nation with more than 1.77 million in urban areas and government-run camps. The Special Envoy and UN High Com...
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	Statement by António Guterres on World Refugee Day 2015
	UNHCR, 20 Jun 2015
	Fifteen years into a millennium that many of us hoped would see an end to war, a spreading global violence has come to threaten the very foundations of our international system. More people fled last year than at any other time in our records. Around the world, almost 60 million have been displac...
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Syria Regional Refugee Response	Inter-agency Information Sharing Portal
Inter-agency Information Sharing Portal

20 Feb 2014
The report presents the findings on the achievements, quality and overall impact of humanitarian response on the Syrian refugee crisis in South-East Turkey. Additionally, it identifies lessons learned and develops recommendations for future programming in order to help communities better cope with risk and to enable a more timely and appropriate response to the continuing humanitarian crisis. The assessment was undertaken by Support to Life (STL), one of the humanitarian actors in the region in December 2013 in Hatay Province, South-East Turkey.
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31 Jan 2014
An assessment of socio-economic and living conditions among Syrian refugees in Sanliurfa Province, South-East Turkey in January 2014. The assessment was undertaken by Support to Life (STL), one of the humanitarian actors in the region.
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08 May 2014
A summary of the population distribution and trends with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey as at 30 April 2014.
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07 Apr 2014
A summary of the population distribution and trends with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey as at 31 March 2014.
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10 Mar 2014
A summary of the population distribution and trends with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey as at 28 February 2014.
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12 Feb 2014
A summary of the population distribution and trends with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey as at 31 January 2014.
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20 Jan 2014
Trend of total registered Syrian refugees (camp and non-camp) in Turkey from January 2012 - December 2013.
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20 Jan 2014
Summary of the population structure, distribution and trends pertaining to the Syrian refugees in Turkey as at 30 December 2013.
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15 Aug 2014
Map showing the refugee camps hosting Syrian refugees in southeast Turkey and their population as at 31 July 2014.
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15 Aug 2014
Registered Syrian refugees in urban locations in southeast Turkey as of 31 July 2014
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18 Jul 2014
Map showing the refugee camps hosting Syrian refugees in southeast Turkey and their population as at 30 June 2014.
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18 Dec 2013
The chapter on Turkey in the new Regional Response Plan (RRP6) for the period January-December 2014 on the Syria refugee emergency response.
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14 Oct 2015
The United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Rescue Committee and the International Medical Corps conducted an evaluation, in 2015, examining the extent to which the minimum standards for GBV prevention and response, outlined in 2005 IASC Guidelines on GBV interventions in Humanitarian Setting, in the health, shelter, WASH sector responses in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Northern Syria. The findings of the evaluation revealed that the 2005 IASC GBV guidelines were generally not well known and that the sectors generally felt that the responsibility of implementing GBV guidelines rested on the GBV working groups. Furthermore, the evaluation found that no measures of accountability were taken when sectors failed to integrated essential actions to reduce risk of GBV. It is hoped that the findings of the evaluation will support the roll out of the 2015 revised GBV guidelines and feed into the sector appeal processes such as the Refugee Resilience Response Plans and Whole of Syria Strategic Response Plans of 2016. For more information please contact Jennifer Miquel, UNFPA miquel@unfpa.org and Lachin Hasanova UNHCR hasanova@unhcr.org”
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14 Oct 2015
The United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund, the International Rescue Committee and the International Medical Corps conducted an evaluation, in 2015, examining the extent to which the minimum standards for GBV prevention and response, outlined in 2005 IASC Guidelines on GBV interventions in Humanitarian Setting, in the health, shelter, WASH sector responses in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Northern Syria. The findings of the evaluation revealed that the 2005 IASC GBV guidelines were generally not well known and that the sectors generally felt that the responsibility of implementing GBV guidelines rested on the GBV working groups. Furthermore, the evaluation found that no measures of accountability were taken when sectors failed to integrated essential actions to reduce risk of GBV. It is hoped that the findings of the evaluation will support the roll out of the 2015 revised GBV guidelines and feed into the sector appeal processes such as the Refugee Resilience Response Plans and Whole of Syria Strategic Response Plans of 2016. For more information please contact Jennifer Miquel, UNFPA miquel@unfpa.org and Lachin Hasanova UNHCR hasanova@unhcr.org”
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