Many Syrians who fled civil war to make new homes in Turkey now face rebuilding their lives again after this month’s earthquakes, with some under pressure to return across the border or move to refugee camps
Syrian families who fled civil war in their own country are having to rebuild their lives twice over due to the quakes
Syrian refugees living in Turkey board buses at the northern Bab al-Hawa border crossing earlier this month, as they return to Syria in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake.NURDAĞI, Turkey—Many of the Syrians who fled civil war to make new homes in Turkey now face rebuilding their lives again, with some under growing pressure to return across the border or move to refugee camps as a scramble for resources in the destruction zone intensifies.
Turkey opened its border to Syrians after a 2011 uprising in the neighboring country blew up into a deadly conflict. Some 3.5 million Syrian refugees now live in Turkey, about half of them in the southern Turkish provinces that were devastated by the Feb. 6 quakes. Before this month, many had found work and their own accommodation.
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