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TURKEY / SYRIAN REFUGEES AID
STORY: TURKEY / SYRIAN REFUGEES AID
TRT: 2.28
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 11 OCTOBER 2013, AKCAKALE, TURKEY
1. Wide shot, people on the street
2. Wide shot, Syria
3. Various shots, people waiting for food donation
4. Various shot, of them while registering
5. Pan right,volunteer Mahmuut Yalcinkaya
6. Wide shot,refugee women waiting with their children
7. SOUNDBITE(Arabic) Mahmuut Yalcinkaya,volunteer, Akcakale resident:
“We were delivering assistance at the border and someone sprayed us with bullets. I was wounded in the leg. A Turkish policeman was killed and 13 people were wounded. But we would not stop giving help because of such incidents.”
8. Pan right, Syrian refugee Wahid arriving
9. Wide shot, people jump onto the arriving truck
10. Pan right, of Wahid getting his aid
11. Wide shot, women carrying their aid
12. Med shot, refugees putting aid into car
13. Med shot, interior of car
14. Pan right, refugees carrying aid into house
15. Pan right, interior house
16. Wide shot, refugee women sitting in the garden
17. Med shot, Mahmuut Yalcinkaya looking at them
18. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wahid, Syrian refugee man:
“He was driving and we flagged him down with our bags beside us. It was after sunset. He asked us to come with him and he brought us to his house and insisted that we stay. He said, you have to stay with me.”
19. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vafta, Syrian refugee woman:
“Turkey receives all Arabs with respect. If it hadn’t been for Turkey, where would we have gone? Without Turkey we would have died.”
20. Wide shot, Mahmuut Yalcinkaya with son in garden
More than 10,000 Syrian Refugees have spilled over into the border town of Akcakale in Southern Turkey. The town abuts a refugee camp that holds 30,000 more Syrian refugees seeking safety.
The urban refugee crowd into the local ward councillor’s office, armed with their registration cards. With these they are eligible for regular aid handouts, organized and collected by local residents and NGOs.
Mahmuut Yalcinkaya is a Turkish Arab. He quit his job in Istanbul to come home and deliver aid into Syria. He had to do it, he says, they were men and women of his tribe. Then it became too dangerous.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmuut Yalcinkaya, volunteer, Akcakale resident:
“We were delivering assistance at the border and someone sprayed us with bullets. I was wounded in the leg. A Turkish policeman was killed and 13 people were wounded. But we would not stop giving help because of such incidents.”
After a three hours wait in the hot sun, the aid truck arrives with oil, sugar and basic foodstuffs for fortunate cardholders.
One of them is Wahid who fled the fighting seven months ago with his daughter and her family of six. Rather than deliver aid across the border, Mahmuut now takes in refugee families. Wahid’s is one of them.
Others aren’t quite as fortunate. They must carry their aid to makeshift dwellings while they wait for walls and a roof.
Mahmuut helps those he has taken in to put their aid packages in his car and then drives them home.
They bring what they have received to four bare rooms in his house. Thirty refugees, from three families, live there. Mahmuut says more help is needed, not from Turkey but from the rest of the world.
The old refugees praise their benefactor.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Wahid, Syrian refugee man:
“He was driving and we flagged him down with our bags beside us. It was after sunset. He asked us to come with him and he brought us to his house and insisted that we stay. He said, you have to stay with me.”
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Vafta, Syrian refugee woman:
“Turkey receives all Arabs with respect. If it hadn’t been for Turkey, where would we have gone? Without Turkey we would have died.”
Mahmuut never thought the conflict and his aid efforts would last so long. But he says it is his responsibility. He will carry on helping to the end of the war.
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