Syrian women refugees to exhibit their skills in Atmeh camp

'Maram' Organization for Relief and Development establish handcrafts center for clothing and textiles, where the Syrian woman who lives in the camp of olive trees near Atmeh on the Syrian border - Turkish, can be more actively involved in the field of weaving textiles and clothing.

 Meanwhile, Atmeh's refugee camp continued its open protest that started week ago against the miserable life conditions in Atmeh camp, Syria’s border with Turkey – the final point for refugees crossing into Turkey.

Refugees condemned the National Coalition negligence; they demanded an urgent act towards their continuous misery since two years until now. Their anger combined with riot acts against the Medical clinics and administrative offices.

 ''From a distance, the camp at Atmeh looked beautiful: tents clustered together in a dash of white on a brown hill, green rows of olive trees on either side. Close up, it was pure misery.'' BBC reported months ago, the misery never been changed since that time.

 “The entire world can see what’s happening here. Did anyone help?” a woman shouted once. “We have no toilets, no water, no food,” said another woman. “Is our situation acceptable? You have been watching us like this for two years.'' BBC reported about their suffer. 

The Syrian volunteers running the camp are extremely worried. They are talking about sending people elsewhere. “Families will carry their tents and Atmeh will be divided into four or five camps,” said one to BBC months ago.

Packing up their tents and moving will compound the hopelessness and sense of betrayal we found at Atmeh. The fine words of Western politicians (or visiting journalists) were “all lies”, the angry woman had shouted.

The civil war has also driven 1.7 million refugees to seek shelter in neighboring countries and is turning into a proxy conflict for Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim powers in the Middle East.

Turkey is hosting close to half a million Syrian refugees. As of mid-June 2013, over 200,000 of them were housed in twenty one refugee camps. Another nearly 290,000 refugees live outside these camps while about 100,000 internally displaced Syrians are reported to be in a number of make-shift refugee camps on the Syrian side of the border, waiting to be admitted into Turkey.  Syrians displaced in and near Turkey are part of a much larger number of Syrian IDPs and refugees which are challenging governments in the region.

The Syrian conflict shows no signs of ending soon and the refugee crisis may worsen before it gets better, with serious humanitarian repercussions. A clear commitment on the part of the international community to burden sharing will also make it easier for the Turkish government to maintain its ‘open door’ policy. Said Kemal Kirişci, Director of Turkey Project in the United States and Europe center.

The 27-month-long conflict has claimed more than 100,000 lives, the London-Bsed Syrian Human Rights Observatory announced Wednesday.