"Container city" planning!

Google earth doesn't show any picture of the camp because the construction has just been started in March 2012. On the other hand the population of the camp is growing very fast and Turkish government  is expanding the site.

3D Model of every unit

Kilis Refugee Camp Research

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49percent of camp population are under 18 years old

What's going on in the Kilis camp?

On April 9th, Syrian forces fire over border at protesters in Kilis refugee camp killing two and wounding 15.

Syrian refugees walked out the Kilis refugee camp after a clash with police on July 22, 2012. Turkish police fired tear gas on stone-throwing Syrian refugees who were protesting at the lack of food and water at camps on the border. 

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The refugee camp in Kilis

The refugee camp in Kilis is 500 meters away from the border with Syria . Until July 10th, there were more than 12000 Syrian refugees from Syrian civil war living in this "container city". However the number is increasing everyday.

Where is Kilis?

Kilis is a city in south-central Turkey near the border with Syria and capital of Kilis Province. The population was 82,109 as in 2010.

Kilis has a semi-arid climate with very hot, dry and long summers and cool and rainy winters.

Life at a Syrian Refugee Camp on Kilis city,the Turkish Border

Refugees of the Syrian civil war are Syrian nationals, who fled Syria with the escalation of the Syrian civil war. Correct for July 2012, more than 112,000 Syrians were finding refuge in neighbouring Jordan, Lebanon, Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey. Thousands more of Syrian refugees were most probably unrecorded.