Reagan Brill Professor Levenson GDS 3030 / ENGL 3610 April 10, 2020 Syrian Refugees in Turkey Blog 4 The rise of Covid-19 has been devastating to populations all over the world, and refugee populations are no exception. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, Turkey currently houses more registered Syrian refugees than any other country in the world. Turkey… Read more →
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Female Syrian Refugees in Turkey – Reagan Brill
Reagan Brill Professor Levenson GDS 3030 / ENGL 3610 February 28, 2020 Syrian Refugees in Turkey Blog 3 As a general update on the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey, in my first blog I found that as of January 9, 2020 there were 3,576,659 registered refugees (UNHCR). That number has increased by about 10,000 people as of… Read more →
Yazidis in Syria: Persecution of an Ethnoreligious Minority
The Yazidi people are a small, monotheistic ethnoreligious minority who have lived primarily in the Nineveh Province of Iraq and the Al-Jazira region of Syria for centuries (MERI). Although the Yazidi people practice monotheism, their religion has been long misunderstood by members of other religions. One of the central figures in the Yazidi faith, Melek Taus, or the “Peacock Angel” in… Read more →
What is Terrorism?
Slade Sinak Blog #3 – The word terror gets thrown around a lot when people discuss the Syrian Civil War and the related nearby conflicts. The U.S. famously considers ISIS a terror group, al-Assad considers essentially all the rebels to be terror groups, Turkey considers essentially all the Kurdish forces to be terror groups, etc. The reality is that who… Read more →
Reagan Brill – Syrian Women Refugees in Turkey
Reagan Brill Professor Levenson GDS 3030 / ENGL 3610 February 14, 2020 Syrian Refugees in Turkey Blog 2 My last blog post discussed some statistical data as an introduction to the current refugee crisis going on in Turkey as a result of the Syrian Civil War. I also went into some detail about the refugee’s participation in the… Read more →
The Syrian Civil War
Slade Sinak Blog #2 – For its own part, Syria shares many characteristics with Turkey but is further to the south and therefore more clearly part of the Middle East and less connected to the West. President Bashar al-Assad has been in power since 2000 (and his father before him) and was widely considered a dictator. His suppression of protests… Read more →
Refugees in Syria/Turkey — Reagan Brill
Reagan Brill Professor Levenson GDS 3030 / ENGL 3610 January 31, 2020 Syrian Refugees in Turkey The outbreak of the Syrian Civil War in March 2011 has turned the lives of millions of Syrians upside down. In response to the crisis, many families left all their possessions and fled to Turkey which now houses 3,576,659 registered Syrian refugees… Read more →