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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

we are the children of the civilization of conscience. Because of the experience we
have gained from our history, we have and will never turn away anyone waiting at
our door.

This is an outcome of the universal mercy of our civilization.
The burden of conscience requires us to ask why these people are forced to flee
their homelands instead of blaming them. It is easy to blame migrants. Taking the
easy way out, which is often preferred, is another form of escape from responsibility,
rather than devising a solution.

Everyone should be able to live peacefully and happily in the place where they were
born. The responsibility of the economically developed countries is extremely high
in this respect. These countries should be reminded that:

You cannot say “do not disturb Paris, Vienna, Munich, London” if you make Aleppo,
Baghdad, Gaza, Sana, Kabul, and other similar places uninhabitable.
You cannot imagine that you will live in peace and security in Spain, Italy, Belgium,
or America, if you make Libya, Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, Mali, and other similar
places unmanageable.

You must think that after terrorist organizations like PKK, YPG, Daesh, FETÖ,
and Al-Qaeda made these people’s homelands uninhabitable, the same problems
will spread to other countries, like stirring up a hornet’s nest.

With the walls you have built, the fences you have erected, and the barricades you
have established to deter people fleeing African coasts in boats from finding shelter
in Europe, you just turn your own continent into an enormous prison. However, if
you spend your resources to enable people who have been forced to migrate to live
in their homes in peace, the entire world will be more peaceful and happier.

In this sense, the report prepared by the Ombudsman Institution has been
very stimulating, instructive, and helpful in producing solutions. I would like to
congratulate our valuable colleagues and all the hard-working people, especially
Mr. Şeref Malkoç, the Chief Ombudsman of the Ombudsman Institution, for the
work that has been done, and hope that the prepared report will result in opening
a new horizon.

SYRIANS IN TÜRKİYE SPECIAL REPORT 11