TURKEY SPEND $ 30 BILLION FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES

Turkey will remain at the forefront in dealing with humanitarian crises, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu said on Nov. 5, adding that the country has spent $30 billion on the refugee crisis in Syria since 2011. 

“In recent years, we have increased the amount and variety of our assistance,” Çavuşoğlu told a gala dinner organized by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in the Mediterranean resort city Antalya. 

He said that Turkey hosts more than 3.2 million Syrians, more than any other country in the world. 

He said that despite all claims, the international community did not help Turkey in dealing with the crisis, and Turkey has spent $30 billion on the refugees since the civil war in Syria broke out in 2011. 

He added that Turkey was taking special care to ensure access to education for the Syrian refugees. 

“There are 976,000 Syrian children of school-going-age living in Turkey. 620,000 of them have been able to continue their education. We are doing our best to increase this number,” he said.

News Date: 06 / 11 / 2017
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