Arab diaspora

The number of Syrian children at education age in Turkey has reached nearly one million, according to the head of Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), Mehmet Halis Bilden. 

In an EC report on the implementation of the quota for resettlement of migrants Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovakia have been criticized over accepting few of those wanting asylum.

The report states that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Croatia, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia have not yet welcomed any Syrian refugees according to the agreement with Turkey, quoted by BNR.

Nearly half of Canadians want to deport people who are illegally crossing into Canada from the United States, and a similar number disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the influx, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.

The migration agreement between Turkey and the EU is proving its effectiveness on a daily basis, announced Brussels on the occasion of the one year anniversary of the signing of the deal.

Syrian doctors and other medical professionals, who have survived the unbridled war in their country, are helping their countrymen recover physically and mentally to embark on a new life in several facilities in southern Turkey with the support of 50 non-governmental organizations.

Almost 4 percent of Istanbul's population is made up of Syrian refugees, according to a new report. 

The Marmara Municipalities' Union's Migration Policies Center report stated that nearly 540,000 Syrian nationals are currently residing in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city. 

According to the report, Syrians thus make up 3.67 percent of the population. 

Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has called for a referendum on naturalizing Syrian refugees and Turkey's plans about participating in an offensive on Syria's Raqqa.

Turkey's disaster agency AFAD and the Women and Democracy Association (KADEM) have accelerated a project for the social and economic integration of women and children refugees in Turkey.  

Turkey's Ministry of Health, with the support of UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO), is conducting a campaign to complete the vaccination of all refugee children under the age of five. 

Children are being vaccinated in all of the country's 81 provinces by staff from the ministry between Feb. 15 and Feb. 28.

The United Nations on Feb. 6 called on donor countries to supply $3.5 billion in the next two years to help improve  education and living standards for the almost three million Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey. Ankara has repeatedly complained of being left alone to deal with the influx of Syrian refugees since the conflict began in March 2011.