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Donation of relief items in Adiyaman, southern Türkiye
MSF donated various essential relief items to people affected by the earthquake in the city of Adiyaman in southern Türkiye, in collaboration with the Turkish Medical Association. Turkiye, February 2023.
© Igor Barbero/MSF

We ended our response to the earthquakes in Türkiye in May 2023.

Türkiye (formerly Turkey) hosts the largest refugee and asylum seeker population in the world – just over four million – nearly 3.7 million of whom are Syrian.*

Around 90 per cent of Syrian refugees in Türkiye live in precarious conditions outside camp settings with insufficient access to basic public services.

Until the end of 2022, we provided financial and technical support to local NGOs working with refugees and asylum seekers in Türkiye. Teams in Türkiye also give remote support to medical staff in Syria.

Between February and May 2023, our teams in Türkiye worked with partners to respond to the earthquakes.

*UNHCR Refugee Statistics, 2021