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220,000 refugees are housed in 22 camps erected in Turkey. Even
when the camps are working at full capacity, 85% of Syrian refugees
still live outside them. The number of Syrian refugees in Istanbul alone
is around 330,000.

Compared with examples from around the world, conditions in
the camps are very good. Of the $497 million set aside for Turkey in

the U.N. call for regional funding for Syrian refugees in 2014, only 28%
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had reached Turkey by November 5 2014, or some $140 million; yet
Turkey has spent more than 30 times that, around $4 billion, from its
own budget on Syrian refugees.

In October 2014, Turkey published a Temporary Protection
Decree securing the legal status of Syrian refugees. However, this has
not yet been implemented.

The refugee camp in the district of
Suruç of Turkey is a well-thought-
through and unique refugee camp
designed particularly for hosting our
Kurdish brothers from Kobani.

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