Turkey

A young girl stands outside her family tent in Nizip 1 refugee camp, Gaziantep, southern Turkey.

Programme

Refugee and migrant children

Read how we support refugee and migrant children and their families.

18/10/2017

Lale looking at the brochure about the children in contact with law at the Judicial Interview Room.

Article

Special room helps Turkey handle court cases

12,000 children have used the special rooms in 62 courthouses across the country

30/01/2020

Boy at writing at a UNICEF-supported learning center in Turkey.

Report

Providing Cash Based Assistance in Crises

Approaches to Providing Cash Based Assistance to Meet the Needs of Children in Protracted Crises: Lessons from Turkey

11/07/2019

Article

There is no such thing as impossible

A Syrian refugee in Turkey finds a home and a purpose

01/12/2018

Riad Mehmeti with his younger sister in front of the family home in Pristina, Kosovo (SCR 1244).

Report

Everybody counts

A situation analysis of the inclusion of children with disabilities in the Western Balkans and Turkey

01/12/2018

Hazir Mehmeti, helps his son Rijad get back to his electric wheelchair after a physical therapy session in Handikos, a local rehabilitation center and UNICEF implementing partner.

Press release

Children with disabilities excluded from communities in Western Balkans and Turkey

New report from UNICEF and the European Disability Forum, with financial support from the European Union, on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities

30/11/2018

Dilara Uraz is a 19-year-old student from Ankara, Turkey. She currently studies at University of Bordeaux Montaigne, in Bordeaux, France.

Blog post

Be a woman who will change the world

To achieve success girls need the right skills

12/10/2018

Hanaa, 8, who was paralysed by an exploding bomb and lost the use of her legs, sits next to her classmates at a school in east Aleppo city, Syrian Arab Republic.

Press release

Nearly 5 million Syrian children accessing education despite over seven years of war on children

Ahead of the Brussels conference, UNICEF calls for more support to children’s education

23/04/2018

Emine, 7, sleeps in the emergency room at the hospital in Adana, Turkey. She was injured when a bomb hit her family's home in Syria, killing her mother who was pregnant at the time.

Photo Essay

Syrian crisis takes tragic toll on refugee families

The El Ilevis fled Syria for Turkey over a year ago during an attack that killed their mother and left Emine, 7, seriously injured. Read their story.

21/03/2018

A refugee girl sits writing at a desk in a school in Turkey.

Press release

EU provides additional 31.4 million euros to support the most vulnerable refugee children in Turkey

The 12-month programme will build on the positive results achieved with financial support of the EU and other donors since 2015.

02/02/2018

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