| ID | 119741 |
| Title Proper | Taking refuge |
| Other Title Information | the Syrian revolution in Turkey |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Krajeski, Jenna |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Reyhanli, Turkey-On a Friday in early April, for the first time since opening almost one year earlier, Turkey's Reyhanli refugee camp is quiet. Its tight security-barbed wire, guards, and a large swath of farmland isolating it from the next town-has been loosened ever so slightly by the constant movement of Syrian refugees north from Reyhanli along the Syria-Turkey border to a new camp, 90 miles away, in Kilis. Guards lounge at Reyhanli's half-open gates, letting journalists and refugees pass with a nonchalance compounded by exhaustion. Collapsed canvas tents lie in mounds beside their swept-clean concrete beds. Near the gendarme station, children swarm around a custard cake, a present from Turkey's Anatolia News Agency, the agency's logo decorating the top in blue frosting. But in the background of the isolated, half-empty camp, the acrid black plumes coming off nearby mounds of burning garbage are like smoke signals. |
| `In' analytical Note | World Policy Journal Vol. 29, No.2; Summer 2012: p.59-67 |
| Journal Source | World Policy Journal Vol. 29, No.2; Summer 2012: p.59-67 |
| Key Words | Reyhanli ; Turkey ; Refugee ; Security ; Syria ; Smoke Signals ; Bashar al-Assad |