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

Refugee and migrant children

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

Children warm themselves around a makeshift fire on a beach, after arriving on the Greek island by inflatable dinghies, on March 2, 2020.

Protecting children must be top priority, in latest refugee surge response

Statement attributable to Ms. Afshan Khan, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia and Special Coordinator for the Refugee and Migrant Response in Europe

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

Special room helps Turkey handle court cases

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

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

Providing Cash Based Assistance in Crises

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

(PDF, 1,29 MB)

Zeynep at her home in Istanbul, Turkey.

There is no such thing as impossible

A Syrian refugee in Turkey finds a home and a purpose

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

Everybody counts

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

(PDF, 1,46 MB)

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.

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

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

Be a woman who will change the world

To achieve success girls need the right skills

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.

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

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.

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.