TURKEY-EUROPEAN UNION REFUGEE AGREEMENT: EVALUATION OF THE FIRST YEAR ACHIEVEMENTSRefugee Agreement • November 20th, 2020
Since 2011, civil war in Syria has forced more than 12 million Syrians to leave their homeland. Among them, 6.6 million Syri- ans were relocated within the country to safer regions while 5 million Syrians sought refuge in neighboring countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Iraq. As of February 28, 2017, there are 2,992,762 refugees in Turkey, 2,880,000 of whom are Syrians. As for other neighboring countries, Lebanon hosts 1,011,366 migrants, Iraq - 236,772, Jordan
