TY - JOUR TT - The Role of Turkish NGOs in Social Cohesion of Syrians AU - Çebi, EMRİN PY - 2017 DA - November Y2 - 2017 DO - 10.26513/tocd.312245 JF - Türkiye Ortadoğu Çalışmaları Dergisi JO - TJMES PB - Sakarya University WT - DergiPark SN - 2147-7523 SP - 87 EP - 107 KW - Sivil toplum KW - STK’lar KW - Suriyeli Mülteciler KW - Uyum KW - Yardım Kampanyaları KW - Yardım Projeleri KW - İHH N2 - Turkey is struggling with the fast andincreasing flow of refugees accompanied by internal disputes and involvement inthe unfortunate war of Syria. The complexity of the situation put the government in difficult situation indeveloping social projects and strategies to meet the need of the refugees. Culturaldifferences and language barriers create different problems compared toprevious migrations at the societal level. The most important challenge is thespread of Syrian disputes to Turkish territories, which has resulted in theloss of many lives. This has stirred unrest amongst citizens who are affected against Syrian refugees who they see ascomplicit in the ongoing war. While there are remarkable projects and facilitiesinitiated by governmental agencies and NGOs on the ground, there are stillobstacles to meaningful integration and thecreation of a cohesionary process for the Syrians. The effectiveness of NGOs’ inputs and contributions cannot be measuredbecause of intensive flow of refugees and Turkey’s internal problems. NGOs-especiallyfaith based NGOs- recently started to criticize their work area, which focusedon humanitarian aid rather than social cohesion, which is urgently needed. The unknown course of the war does not allowpeople to settle down and attain some stability, however, in spite of thechallenges posed by the influx of migrants and Turkey’s internal problems, mostpeople in the society tolerate the migrants largely from the compassion oftheir religious beliefs and because of the committed efforts of NGOs which playa crucial role in dealing with migration andthe problems it presents in Turkey. This paper focused on the projects,programmes, campaigns, and discourses of some NGOs in order to display theirrole in the social cohesion process ofSyrians. IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation that has the enormous reliefprojects for Syrians has been introduced as an example in showing the peoples’awareness in supporting the relief projects, which are run only by donations. Accordingto findings of this paper, faith based Turkish NGOs are very crucial mechanismsin moderating huge differences between Syrians and Turkish. 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