Arab diaspora

Turkey tops the list of refugee hosting countries in the world, hosting 2.9 million of the world's 65 million refugees, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated on June 20.

Most of the refugees hosted by Turkey are from Syria and Iraq, with the UNHCR putting the number of Iraqi refugees in Turkey at around 30,000. 

Tensions between a Syrian worker and factory department head on the morning of June 15 in the Hendek district of the Marmara province of Sakarya escalated to involve hundreds of locals, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

There was a photograph on the front page of daily Posta the other day. The paper enlarged the photograph spreading it to nine columns as it deserved; it was taken at Turkey's Syrian border post Öncüpınar in Kilis. 

A huge crowd, the one that you can only come across at political rallies, was at the border post, waiting.

Police conducted a raid on around 1,000 tents housing Syrian and Turkish agricultural workers early on June 13 in the southern province of Adana as part of "peace operations" to maintain public safety and prevent possible terrorist attacks in the country, Doğan News Agency reported.

The Turkish Red Crescent has sent more than $700 million in aid to Syria since civil war began in the country more than six years ago, the organization said June 11.

A new short film depicting the tragedy of Syrian refugees attempting to reach Europe has been shot in the Aegean province of İzmir's Çeşme district. The shooting was done on the beach of Palace Hotel in three days. 

One Syrian man was stabbed to death on June 6 during a brawl between two Syrian groups in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.

The Imece Initiative, a non-governmental organization working mostly with Syrian refugees in the western province of İzmir, has started to provide education for refugee children who do not have access to school, by setting up makeshift tents.

A group of around 30 Syrian refugees Thursday blocked the entrance to the Moria reception center on Lesvos, demanding their immediate transfer to the Kara Tepe camp, another facility on the eastern Aegean island where living conditions are better.

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley will make her first trip overseas this week as Washington's envoy to the United Nations, traveling to Jordan and Turkey to focus on the plight of Syrian refugees.     

Haley will meet with government officials and representatives of non-governmental organizations and UN agencies during the visit from May 19 to 25.