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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

by the Turkish Red Crescent and WFP joint teams and the markets’ prices and hygiene
are controlled by the Red Crescent. Syrians staying in TACs are entitled to benefit from
both the Red Crescent Card and the AFAD Card without being bound by any criteria.
Every family with a Red Crescent Card also has an AFAD Card and receives 50 TL per
person per month from AFAD.

With AFAD Card, other needs can be met without product restrictions. As of August
1, 2017, a total of 462,812,015 TL had been loaded to the 132,763 beneficiary cards
within the scope of the Red Crescent In-Camp Program.

Since June 2015, the Red Crescent Card Program has begun to be implemented
for Syrian citizens living outside of TACs in 5 provinces, including Gaziantep,
Kahramanmaraş, Şanlıurfa, Hatay, and Kilis and continued its activities until April 30,
2017. In the frame of the non-camp project, the families to be given cards were selected
based on criteria agreed upon by the Turkish Red Crescent and the WFP; 100 TL is
loaded to these cards per month per person in the household. In this way, the families
were able to receive the amount in cash from ATMs. Between the dates of June 2015
and April 2017, a total of 147,624,903 TL was distributed to 159,960 beneficiaries.

The Republic of Türkiye and the European Union, along with the European Civil
Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (ECHO) Directorate General, have
agreed to release 3 billion euros to fund these programs; thus, the “Social Integration
Assistance” program has been launched for foreign nationals living outside TACs. At
this point, the Red Crescent Card Non-Camp Program, which had been running in
five provinces, has been expanded throughout Türkiye. As of December 30, 2016, Red
Crescent Cards were delivered to the first 589 eligible families and the first aid money
were loaded and this project carried on by The Turkish Red Crescent, MFSP, and WFP.
Within the context of the program in which entitlement is determined by the SYDVs,
a decision was made to pay 120 TL per person per month, effective June. Elderly and
the disabled people have privileges to receive this aid. As of August 2017, approximately
942,000 people and 158,000 households were provided aid within the context of Social
Integration Aid.

A protocol on the “Non-Food Support Project” was signed between the Turkish Red
Crescent and UNHCR on June 1, 2016 in order to meet the basic needs of the Syrians
living in our country. The aim of the project is to distribute 10,000 items of non-food
material goods to urban Syrians living in Adana, Mersin, Bursa, İzmir, Ankara, Konya,
Kayseri, and Osmaniye and 50,000 hygiene sets in Hatay, Kilis, Gaziantep, Şanlıurfa,
and Kahramanmaraş.

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