UNHCR
FILE:
TITLE: Turkey: Top Refugee Hosting Nation
LANGUAGE: NATS/ English/Arabic
SOURCE: Alex St. Denis/ Don Murray/Edith Champagne
LOCATION: Various – see script
SHOOT DATE: Various – see script
AIR DATE: June 18, 2015
RUNS: 03:30
FORMAT: 16:9
Turkey is now the world’s biggest refugee-receiving country.
Almost 2 million refugees, most of them Syrian, have fled there. Turkey has made huge efforts to accommodate them.
War has driven them out, often with little but the clothes on their backs and their belongings in a bag. The neighbours have taken them in. Turkey is the biggest neighbour, and the most generous.
By the end of 2014 Turkey was hosting 1.59 million refugees, the biggest refugee-hosting country not just in the region..but the world. The flow from the violent conflict next had become a flood…almost one million people fled from Syria into Turkey in the last year.
Mohammed and his family were among them. Bitter fighting in their hometown of Kobane, just 10 kilometres from the border, drove them out.
CLIP Mohammed, Syrian Refugee (Arabic):
“We walked to a town next to the border and we got in a big car. We were there for two hours, bullets and mortars were flying over our head, we kept hiding in the car. We stayed there for 2-3 hours until it was safe enough to move to Turkey.”
To take care of this vast new population, Turkey has built a network of camps…22 by the end of 2014, plus two more this year. Here the refugees find protection, shelter and bedding, and much more….they are fed…their children can go to school…and they are registered.
The flow of refugees is steady and unceasing, sometimes rising dramatically when fighting becomes intense in border regions in Syria.
In the biggest displacement crisis of our time, Turkey by the end of 2014 had already spent a staggered 5.5 billion dollars to help these people.
The camps housed almost 260,000 people but at the end of 2014 the vast majority, more than 1.3 milllion people, lived on their own, and they were not just Syrians, but refugees from 70 nations…among them Afghans, Somalis, Iraqis…in all 81 provinces of Turkey.
Like Mohammed and his family, who camp next to the border, next to their lost home, and are torn between hope and worry.
CLIP Mohammed, Syrian Refugee (Arabic):
“I think about the situation, what will happen to us, how will we go back, about our family. We have lost relatives, my cousins.”
“Sometimes I cry uncontrollably, tears just roll down my face.”
The enormous generosity of Turkey and its people has saved and protected their lives, and those of tens of thousands of others. But theirs is still a life in exile, and their dream, undimmed, is a dream of return.
SHOTLIST
10:00:00:00 Various of distressed Syrian refugees crossing border –Turkey, Yumurtalık, Suruç, Urfa September 23, 2014
10:00:09:09 Red Cross workers rush through crowd carrying old Syrian refugee –Turkey, Yumurtalık, Suruç, Urfa September 23, 2014
10:00:16:04 Syrian refugees waiting by border –Turkey, Yumurtalık, Suruç, Urfa September 23, 2014
10:00:20:09 Syrian refugees crossing border –Turkey, Yumurtalık, Suruç, Urfa September 23, 2014
10:00:24:12 Syrian refugees sitting on belonging’s –Turkey, Yumurtalık, Suruç, Urfa September 23, 2014
10:00:28:22 Syrian refugees girl holding biscuts –Turkey, Yumurtalık, Suruç, Urfa September 23, 2014
10:00:31:07 Various of distressed Syrian refugees crossing border –Turkey, Yumurtalık, Suruç, Urfa September 23, 2014
10:00:43:06 Mohammed’s wife walking into room with tea - Saygin, Turkey,
February 10, 2015
10:00:49:00 Close of Mohammed’s daughter drawing - Saygin, Turkey,
February 10, 2015
10:00:53:10 Clip, Mohammed, Syrian Refugee (Arabic):
“We walked to a town next to the border and we got in a big car. We were there for two hours, bullets and mortars were flying over our head, we kept hiding in the car. We stayed there for 2-3 hours until it was safe enough to move to Turkey.”
10:01:24:20 Various of Refuge camps - Nizip Camp, Nizip,TurkeyMarch 11, 2013
10:01:38:20 - Henna holding the baby sitting wither children.Kilis, Turkey June 12, 2013
10:01:43:05 Women standing at basins. Nizip Camp, Nizip,TurkeyMarch 11, 2013
10:01:45:03 Stirring of food. - Gaziantep, Turkey June 14, 2013
10:01:47:21 Children in class - Gaziantep, Turkey March 12, 2013
10:01:53:06 Registration office for refugees - Gaziantep, Turkey March 12, 2013
10:01:56:08 Finger printing of Syrian refugees - Gaziantep, Turkey March 12, 2013
10:01:59:08 Mother holding childs hand, crossing the border - Urfa, Suruç, Turkey
September 25 & 26, 2014
10:02:04:12 Refugees behind barbed wire and military garuds - Urfa, Suruç, Turkey
September 25 & 26, 2014
10:02:09:19 Syrian refugees crossing border - Urfa, Suruç, Turkey
September 25 & 26, 2014
10:02:14:21 Syrian refugee child sitting on belonging’s - Urfa, Suruç, Turkey
September 25 & 26, 2014
10:02:17:18 Syrian refugee child in blankets belonging’s - Urfa, Suruç, Turkey
September 25 & 26, 2014
10:02:22:00 Various Refugee camp - Nizip Camp, Nizip,TurkeyMarch 11, 2013
10:02:30:01 Refugees up against the wall - : Akcakale, Turkey October 11, 2013
10:02:34:17 make shit tent - Akcakale, Turkey October 11, 2013
10:02:37:17 crying Afghan old woman- Afghanistan June 2011
10:02:40:05 Somali refuges girl Kenya, Dadaab Camp 7/12/14
10:02:42:11 Yazidi mothee sitting in dark/broken apartment with child building Zakho, Northern Iraq November 13, 14 & 15, 2014
10:02:47:04 Mohammed walking with childrenSaygin, Turkey,
February 10, 2015
10:02:54:02 CLIP Mohammed, Syrian Refugee (Arabic):
“I think about the situation, what will happen to us, how will we go back, about our family. We have lost relatives, my cousins.”
“Sometimes I cry uncontrollably, tears just roll down my face.”
10:03:12:10 Mohammed and wife in house with children Saygin, Turkey,
February 10, 2015
10:03:18:18 Children playing outside of house Saygin, Turkey,
February 10, 2015
10:03:21:18 Mohammed looking into fields Saygin, Turkey,
February 10, 2015
10:03:24:13 Mohammed pointing into fields with children Saygin, Turkey,
February 10, 2015
10:03:30:02 END