Report a mispronounced word. Leafy vines and potted flowers line the small plastic trailer where Abdullah Jawish has lived for two years. Planted as a symbol of optimism, they belie his despair that he and fellow Syrians will ever leave their refugee camps and return home.
When they first arrived, the refugees thought their life outside Syria would be temporary. After more than three years of bloodshed that has killed more than , people and forced 9m to flee their homes, few refugees believe they can return soon. Many fear they never will. She fled her home city of Aleppo almost three years ago. The sense of permanence is not just a worry for the 1.
Ankara itself is growing alarmed by both the economic and the social costs of its refugee burden. Funds are drying up. A deeper worry for Ankara is the rising frustration of the estimated 1.
Outside the camps, refugees scrape together money to rent space in garages or unfinished buildings. Child labour and prostitution are growing among refugees not legally allowed to work in Turkey. Ankara has been working on new measures to make it easier for refugees to work, but many have already turned to crime, like the smuggling that has helped jihadi militants to flow into Syria and which authorities are desperate to stop.
But it also said Turkey had not done enough in requesting support. Privately, aid workers say Ankara does not make it easy to provide aid, arguing that the assistance spending is insufficiently transparent and that it is difficult for foreign organisations to register and operate in Turkey.
