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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

support for the destruction caused by the war, and offering uninterrupted education
and healthcare services; in a sense this collaborative effort exemplifies human dignity.
In this regard, I express my gratitude to all public institutions and organizations.
The hospitable and charitable attitude of our loyal and resolute nation has made us
the most generous country in the world in terms of humanitarian aid compared to
national income. Moreover, our country does this while fighting undeterred against
terrorist organizations such as the PKK, Daesh, FETÖ, and PYD. In this regard,
we should thank our public personnel and non-governmental organizations who
are working day and night.

Ombudsman institutions, because of their objective nature, take important roles
in terms of informing the international community about preventing rights
violations towards people who are forced to leave their countries and take refuge
in other countries, cases where migrants cannot exercise their rights as defined
in international agreements, or where governmental organizations conduct illegal
activities towards them. We, as the Ombudsman Institution, have endeavored to
establish the condition of those under temporary protection in our country and
present the research we have conducted in this area as a special report. While
conducting our study, first of all, after acknowledging all the parties involved, we
set out to decide how we could deliver public services more effectively, how we
could overcome the problems arising from coordination, and how we could meet
the needs of our public institutions and organizations and how we could improve
our related legislation. At the same time, we wanted to contribute to a foundation
for framing international organizations’ perceptions of Syrians under temporary
protection through this special report. Most importantly, by evaluating our country’s
efforts in undertaking this integrated approach, we would like to note the sacrifices
our nation has made to uphold the obligations of brotherhood.

Within the scope of our special report study, we have carried out meetings with
many of our provincial administrations and representatives of non-governmental
organizations, visited our temporary accommodation centers, conducted site surveys,
heard about problems on the spot by doing field inspections, and interviewed
representatives of international organizations working in Türkiye, such as the United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF); and we have analyzed academic studies and reports
from various perspectives on this field. With the participation of our President, Mr.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, we organized the “International Migration and Refugees”

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