International charity organization Kimse Yok Mu delivered stationary, cloth and food assistance to eth Syrian refugees living in İstanbul.
Around 100 volunteer families from the organization deliver aid boxes to the Syrian refugees every week. Syrian people who are in need of proper assistance expressed their gratitude with the aid assistance.
Celal Türkoğlu, head of İstanbul branch of Kimse Yok Mu told Cihan news agency that there are roughly 100,000 Syrian refugees in İstanbul and they will increase their aid efforts for the refugees with new projects.
Meanwhile, Kimse Yok Mu also collected 24 trucks of aid material for the Syrian refugees living in the eastern provinces of Turkey last week.
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21st century Pharaoh rises: The tragedy of Turkey’s failed coup
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‘Nigerians and their leaders won’t fall for Erdogan’s harebrained gambit’
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Turkish woman returned to prison with newborn 4 days after birth
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Ahmet Şık’s book and Ergenekon’s media campaign (3)
Emre Uslu, Sunday January 1, 2012 In a previous article I examined the media campaign against the Ergenekon trials and discussed Ahmet Şık. As I mentioned, the impact of Şık’s arrest was exaggerated because he was allegedly writing a book criticizing the Gülen movement’s influence in the police force, and his arrest was to prevent […]
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