More than 2 million children don't go to school in Syria, refugees opened schools in Turkey – we cannot afford a lost generation

ISTANBUL Syrian Ibrahim is a 9-year-old but just learning the letters. He is the author of mission book its big, cool E-letters lined up and got under them teacher praise.

Ibrahim is one of the "lucky ones" syrian children who can attend school during the war. He used Turkish Hasköy primary school in Istanbul.

in the Next class the syrians Selma is also a 9-year-old. He used the third grade Turkish students. Selma writes agents fluent in Turkish and likes the most in math.

Yle does not publish children's surname to them and their families to protect.

syrian children opintaso varies dramatically, as school road is a student at broken various periods of time. Often have learning disabilities because of the war.

syria's "lost generation"

Syria has been warned of the war caused by the "lost generation", and not in vain. Over two million children everyday in Syria is the work, bombings, or better, days waiting.

in Addition, more than a million schoolboy feared to have to leave school early. The UN children's organisation Unicef says more than 7 000 schools have been destroyed in the Syrian war.

in Turkey is up to 3.6 million syrians, more than anywhere else in the Syrian outside. In turkey syrian children of school situation has started only now to improve.

the Turkish authorities, more than 640 000 syrian children have gotten to learn the way of Turkey. Yet many still do not get to school, for a total of school-age syrians would be in Turkey more than a million.

Leis worked in a textile factory at the age of 13

One of the reasons syrian refugees children going to school, keskeym of poverty. Refugee families in Turkey and other neighbouring countries of Syria in sending their children prefer to work than to school.

Syria Leis said they had been a 13-year-old father involved in the textile workshop to work in Istanbul. His family had wanted to put him to school, but the Turkish schools did not at that time yet reached.

the Boy dropped out of school in Aleppo for the fifth class after the end, when the family fled war to Turkey. When a syrian aid organization opened a school in Istanbul, Leis get to continue their studies and work hard to catch up the two lost school.

a Syrian high school student Leis gave an interview to reporters in Istanbul.Sevda Kaplan / the EU commission in Turkey

Now Leis is determined 17-year-old. He is studying Turkish in high school and has applied to Germany to study engineering. He admitted to the university in Berlin seems possible. If the family had stayed in Syria, the prospects were probably bleaker.

my Cousin in Syria went before school. They were forced to leave school because of the war. They never made it back to school, even if one of them should already be in college, Leis grieving.

the EU support to schools in Turkey

Last week in Istanbul, visited the EU commission delegation told reporters that the EU funds has been opened 45 new schools in Turkey and the purpose is to build more at least ten.

the EU has provided a total of six billion euros in Turkey the syrians to help as part of Turkey concluded with the controversial refugee agreement. More than a third of the money is reserved for syrian education.

– We simply cannot afford a 'lost generation', European commission, Turkish ambassador to Christian Berger said.

the first schools were in tents

the War in the early years of syrian children were taught in temporary schools in Turkey to be able of how in refugee camps. Some schools operate in tents. The syrians are also based on self-education aid organisations and foreign syrian support.

the 2014 Turkey opened their school doors to syrian kids, when the syrians, the number grew and refugees began to emigrate from the camps to the big cities.

the Turkish authorities, now underway is the transition from the temporary school of the Turkish education system.

and When the syrians came to school, suddenly everything was needed more at: teachers, school buses, school supplies, books, cleaners and security officers.

Istanbul school staircase wall roikkkuu Turkish flag.Ayla Albayrak / YleEpävarmuus gnaw syrian young

syria's prospects in Turkey, however, are unclear than ever since the war began. Syrian-semitism has increased and Turkish requirements for their back to have accelerated.

the president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan the administration made in October military operations in syria to the kurdish administration region. Turkey has announced one of its objectives is based on Syria, the so-called security zone for refugees.

Erdoğan has also repeatedly threatened to open the borders of the European refugee flow.

the Uncertainty is painful, particularly high - school and university age come the syrians, who do not want to return to the middle of the war.

German studies from the dreamy 17-year-old Leis will not know when he would return to Syria, if ever. But he assured you that I will not forget Syria missed cousins.

I Hope after the war we will help them back on their feet, Leis said.

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