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GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF TÜRKİYE THE OMBUDSMAN INSTITUTION

VI. SECURITY

For Syrians who continue to live in our country; important services and activities in
addition to key areas such as housing, education, and health are provided to ensure
public safety, security, and social peace. Here we must discuss two different dimensions
of security. The first is the security of the refugees themselves; the second is security
risks that may arise directly or indirectly from the refugees.
As a result of the efforts to prevent uncontrolled passage on the Syrian border, very
positive results have been achieved to avoid security and economic losses in the border
provinces. Because of Türkiye’s operations on its borders, the apprehension caused by
Syria’s launching rockets toward Türkiye in 2016 has disappeared almost completely.

On the other hand, we observed that the TACs have a very high level of safety and no
serious security problems were encountered, as the internal security of the TACs we
visited was provided by private security and the external security was provided by the
relevant general law enforcement units.

Some of the Syrians who come to our country are trying to cross the Aegean Sea to
European countries through illegal routes and under conditions that can be extremely
dangerous for human life; some of them have lost their lives while using these routes,
but most of them have been saved by the Turkish Coast Guard Command’s efforts

Table 6: Migrants who lost their lives at sea between 2011 and 1 September 2017

YEARS 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Total
number of
546 2.531 8.047 14.961 91.611 37.130 21.937
migrants
Number of
deceased
5 63 40 69 279 192 56
migrants
Ratio 0,90% 2,50% 0,50% 0,50% % 0,3 % 0,5 %0,2

Source: Turkish Coast Guard Command

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