A Study on War, Women, Children and Immigration: The Sample of Syria

Since 2011, the civil war in Syria has become one of the most crucial problems in Turkey and the world’s agenda. The process starting with the protests of the opposition forces claimed millions of lives and destroyed the cities in Syria by 7-8 years. In this process, many Syrians were forced to emigrate. The life of women and men, young and old, rich and poor, during this forced migration, has changed completely. On the other hand, the phenomenon of war and migration dated back to old times as old as humanity, and are unknown when it first started. These two crucial issues are already discussed in the academic, political and social fields for centuries, altered to one of the main agenda items of many countries with the Syrian civil war. Recently, it is possible to read about the Syrian civil war almost every day throughout all kind of media. The subhuman cases and situations can be seen as one of the most crucial problems, in particular, of Turkey, especially for women and children. Millions of Syrian women and children immigrants have taken refuge in Turkey both as registered and unregistered, and this caused to tackle the problem in the perspective of both Turkish and Syrian citizens mandatory. To present and discuss the research findings on Syrian immigrant women and children within the scope of migration and war is the aim of this study. Within this context, after the concepts and topics in literature touched briefly on this subject, the findings examined in detailly in this study