crisisgroup:Syrian Refugees Give Up Hope of Returning Home | Ayla Albayrak and Joe ParkinsonIn the m
crisisgroup:Syrian Refugees Give Up Hope of Returning Home | Ayla Albayrak and Joe ParkinsonIn the months after Kholood Aloksh walked for eight days to flee the violence engulfing her hometown of Houla, she consoled herself with dreams of a rapid return to Syria and the restart of her disrupted studies.Two years later, 22-year-old Ms. Aloksh is still in Turkey with her six siblings and has lost hope of going back. Studying civil engineering on a government scholarship in a Turkish university, she is settling into a new life as a long-term exile.“Now I know I must concentrate on building my future in Turkey,” Ms. Aloksh said, her fellow students buzzing around the university canteen in the city of Gaziantep, close to Turkey’s Syrian border. “The war can continue for even a decade.”As Syria’s civil war enters its fourth year, a growing number of the 800,000 Syrians in Turkey and across the region are concluding there may be no future in their homeland. That is aggravating a policy problem for Turkey and neighboring states, and underscoring how the conflict is reshaping the Middle East in ways that may be irreversible.FULL ARTICLE (Wall Street Journal)Photo: İHH İnsani Yardım Vakfı/TURKEY/flickr -- source link
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