{"id":90151,"date":"2025-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/14002\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:00:00","slug":"14002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/14002","title":{"rendered":"Fear of Destruction and the Fear of Starting from Scratch: Palestinian Syrians in T\u00c3\u00bcrkiye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fayez Abu Eid – Action Group<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Amid the ongoing transformations in Syria, Palestinian Syrians in Turkey find themselves in a predicament,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nfinding it difficult to return to Syria after the fall of the former Assad regime. This is due to the destruction\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nof their homes, the lack of services in their camps, the dilapidated infrastructure, and the fear of starting from scratch.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nAbu Jaafar, a displaced person from Khan al-Shih camp in Gaziantep province, told the Action Group’s correspondent with\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\ndeep sorrow: “I’m thinking about returning to the camp where I grew up and the home where I was born and raised, but\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nunfortunately, the security and economic conditions in Syria are making me hesitate about this decision.” He added that\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nfear of the lack of job opportunities and the instability of the situation prevents him from making the decision to\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nreturn at the present time.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ayman, from Yarmouk camp, who currently resides in the Esenyurt district of Istanbul, describes the idea of returning\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nto Syria as a distant dream, attributing this to the loss of most of his family members: some were arrested and died\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nunder torture, others died as a result of brutal shelling, and others left Syria for Europe in search of safety and\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nsecurity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ayman, who lived through the siege of Yarmouk Camp and tasted the bitterness of hunger and deprivation, says,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\n“All I have left are the painful memories of Syria.” He bows his head, his voice almost breaking into tears.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\n“Why should I return? And for whom?”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When I asked Jamal, from Handarat Camp in Izmir, about the possibility of returning to Syria, he answered\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nimmediately, without hesitation, and in a firm voice, “No.” He continued, “90% of the camp is destroyed, including\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nmy home. I don’t have the financial ability to rebuild, and there are no job opportunities there. It’s best for me\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nand my family to stay in Turkey until God decides.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Refugee testimonies show that the fear of destruction and starting from scratch is a major obstacle to the return\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nof Palestinians of Syria to Syria. Furthermore, they indicate that the security and economic conditions in Syria\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nare still not conducive to return. He adds that the lack of job opportunities and stable security are among the\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nmain factors preventing them from making the decision to return.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Action Group for Palestinians of Syria, represented by its director, Fayez Abu Eid, participated in a\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nconsultative meeting organized by the Fidar Association on Sunday, December 29, 2024, with a number of Syrian\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nPalestinian refugees residing in the Esenyurt district of Istanbul. The meeting aimed to discuss their opinions\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nand suggestions, review their problems and orientations regarding returning to their homes and properties in\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nSyria, and their vision for the next phase after the fall of the Assad regime.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is worth noting that Palestinian-Syrian refugees in Turkey, whose number is estimated between 12,000 and 15,000,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nsuffer from a lack of any kind of international protection. Despite their registration with the United Nations\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nRelief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the latter claims that they are no longer within its\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/span>
\nthose in which it provided services.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fayez Abu Eid – Action Group Amid the ongoing transformations in Syria, Palestinian Syrians in Turkey find themselves in a predicament,\u00c2\u00a0 finding it difficult to return to Syria after the fall of the former Assad regime. This is due to the destruction\u00c2\u00a0 of their homes, the lack of services in their camps, the dilapidated infrastructure, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}