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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

The Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation has delivered humanitarian aid worth about
145,000,000 TL to Syrians so far.

(Source: Anadolu News Agency)

The Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation meets the need for bread among distressed
Syrians in Kilis and on the other side of the border in Azaz, Jarabulus, and Al Bab via
mobile ovens. With the Directorate of Religious Affairs, the Foundation prepares daily
hot meals for 15,000 Syrians in the city of Azaz and villages in the Idlib region whose
homes have been ruined and lack cooking facilities.

The Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation provides health service through a team
consisting of 4 ambulances and volunteer doctors. After chemical attacks and bombings
by the Syrian regime forces in which 100 people were killed, the majority of whom
were children, patients were transported by Turkish Religious Affairs Foundation
ambulances, volunteer doctors performed health screening and first aid, and hospitals
provided fuel and medical supplies.
XV. The Turkish Red Crescent and Their Services

The Turkish Red Crescent started the “Syrian Crisis Humanitarian Aid Operation”
on April 29, 2011 in cooperation and coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
and AFAD following the first entry of Syrians into the Republic of Türkiye via the
Hatay border.

The installation of the first camp in Türkiye was carried out by the Red Crescent teams
in Hatay province, where the Syrian crisis was experienced intensely in June 2011. The
Turkish Red Crescent established 5 camps in the first phase, provided and distributed

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