Humanitarian Response
A huge population movement from Syria to Turkey continues to take place on a daily basis.
According to UNHCR, there are currently over 10,000 Syrian refugees sheltered by Turkish
authorities in four formal camps along the Turkey-Syria border. The information from the field
indicates that these four camps – namely Altinozu town (2,500 people), Bunyogun village (2,000
people), Rihanli town (3,500 people), and Yayldagi Camp (2,500 people) – are overseen by the
authorities and managed by Turkish Red Crescent. The government is preparing more sites to be
used as camps as more refugees flee into the country. The OCHA findings further indicate that
over 50 percent of the population who have fled out from Syria are vulnerable groups, in particular
women along with their children.

Tuesday’s speech by the President of Syria unfortunately has not made any substantial changes to
the unrest, and President Bashar al-Assad continues to face internal and external pressures on his
authority to rule.

Humanitarian Response
The Turkish authorities continue to play national coordination role to organise humanitarian
assistance to Syrian refugees who have moved into the country. While the distribution of most
needed items takes place on a daily basis, the Turkish authorities are responding to the emergency
and are ensuring that the response is appropriate and at this time are not requesting assistance
from INGOs. However, they have clarified that Turkish Red Crescent is allowed to obtain assistance only from local NGOs.

Together with the authorities, Turkish Red Crescent has been managing the
camps and provides hot meals three times a day and psychological support utilising psychologist
experts.  has so far provided following assistance:
•    Food Packets: aid workers started delivering food packets containing cooking oil, rice,
sugar, tea, canned fish, lentil, hygiene items, baby diapers, etc. to the families firstly in
Wadi Khalid on the Syrian-Lebanon border and provided Ready to Eat food packets to the
people at Turkey-Syria border.
•    Provision of medical supply: Many people in different parts of Syria is being wounded
every day and they need medical care. However, most of the people avoid going to
hospitals due to the fear of being caught or killed, rather they prefer local clinics or
individual doctors for their treatment. However, they are short of most of the urgently
needed medicines and medical supplies.  provided to local clinics medicines and
especially blood stoppers.
•    Clothing: The team as well delivered clothes to the refugees who had to leave their
houses without taking extra clothes with them.

Islamic Relief has further conducted assessment at the border of Turkey and Syria and has
identified the highest priority needs as food and hygiene materials. During the assessment, IR has
built positive partnership with a local NGOs who obtained approval from the
Turkish authorities to operate in the area, together with them we will be working to provide Emergency Aid, Food, Water & Shelter for Syrian Refugees.