Reports | 25 05 2020
"I was about to give birth, but even so, they forced me to wait too long at the gate of the camp, under the pretext of exit procedures, does it need a permission from the camp administration to get the child out of my heart?" says Alia, a women living in Soliman Shah refugees’ camp, in the Turkish city of “Tal Abiad”.
The refugees in the camp are forced to do long complicated procedures to be able to get out of the camp, and to get their freedom which they were displaced in order to obtain it! According to Alia.
At the mercy of the Mayor
Soliman Shah camp near is divided into 10 districts, and each district there has its own mayor, and refugees have to apply for permission to leave to be allowed out of the camp for a week, says Ahlam, a refugee in the camp "There are no fixed criteria for approval out of the camp, and often the mayor’s mood would control the order! ", she adds," there is a real audit on the exit of women and children out of the camp. "
And the endless suffering of the refugees after getting the approval of the mayor, where they find themselves forced to stand humiliated in front of the gate guards, long hours before going out of the camp, which closes its doors at 8 o'clock in the evening.
Besieged by its guards
The economic conditions in the camp are almost similar to the Syrian territories to a large extent, since the camp management closed its doors sometimes for more than three days, without mentioning any reasons for that.
Mohammed, a refugee in the camp, says to Rozana: "All food prices rise in the camp, after closing the doors for a long time," he adds: "Whenever they close the doors; I remember the siege we suffered inside Syria.”
The suffering of the refugees increased after the deterioration of the services at the camp, where the camp administration began since 19 of this April to cut the electricity from one o'clock in the afternoon, until five pm, what makes life very difficult for the refugees, since they depend on electricity for the simplest things, such as cook, because the management of the camp prevents them from entering "gas", as the power outage, automatically causes cut off the water supply from them.
"They cut the electricity network that feeds the neighborhoods of the camp, to keep electricity only for the administration, and nothing was clarified for us, we do not know why they treat us this way." says Mohammed.
It is noteworthy that, Soliman Shah camp, or "Tal Abiad Camp" as the Syrians call it, is the largest refugee camps in Turkey, extending over vast areas southern the country, with about 30 to 50 thousand people, of Syrian refugees.
