Humanitarian Relief Foundation

The Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH) distributed blankets and fuel to Syrian refugees living in sub-human conditions in Lebanon.

Emre Kaya, the Middle East Desk coordinator for İHH, said the Lebanese city of Arsal was home to nearly 60,000 Syrian refugees who are struggling to survive in make-shift tents in harsh winter conditions.

A Turkish relief agency on Jan. 30 dispatched aid packages to Rohingya refugees in the southeastern Cox's Bazaar district of Bangladesh.

Istanbul-based Humanitarian Relief Foundation (İHH) sent packages of food and supplies for winter to 44,825 refugees who fled the genocide being committed in Myanmar.

A Turkish humanitarian agency distributed food packages among 500 families in the Philippines' self-governing Muslim-majority Bangsamoro region during the month of Ramadan, it said on May 10.

Medical aid from Turkey came at a time when the government needed it the most, Palestinian Authority's deputy foreign minister said April 30.

"This help meets the needs of Palestine in a critical period when the Palestinian budget is inadequate and the economy is negatively affected by the coronavirus outbreak," Ahmad ed-Dijk told Anadolu Agency.

Turkish organizations dispatched 10 trucks of humanitarian aid Feb. 19 to Syria's northwestern city of Idlib, which has been under severe bombardment from forces of the Bashar al-Assad regime.

Turkey cannot handle a fresh wave of migrants from Syria, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Dec. 23 and slammed the international community for "leaving Turkey alone" amid the refugee crisis.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged the leaders of Muslim countries to address the situation of tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, making desperate attempts to flee the worst violence in Myanmar in at least five years.

A mass rally was held at Istanbul's Yenikapı Square on July 30 to condemn the recent Israeli restrictions on Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on July 30. 

A pregnant Syrian woman and a baby who were brutally murdered in Turkey's northwest were laid to rest in Syria's Idlib on July 9. 

Nine month pregnant Emani el-Rahmun, 20, was raped and killed with her 10-month-old son Halaf el-Rahmun in Sakarya's Kaynarca district on July 6, causing outrage across Turkey. 

Seven-year-old Bana Alabed, who has attracted the world's attention while tweeting from war-torn Aleppo, was evacuated from the divided Syrian city of Aleppo on Dec. 19, a Turkish NGO announced on social media.