Öncüpınar Accommodation Facility was a
refugee camp
A refugee camp is a temporary Human settlement, settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for in ...
for
refugees fleeing the Syrian Civil War located in
Öncüpınar village in
Kilis
Kilis is a city in southernmost Turkey, near the Syria–Turkey border, border with Syria, and the administrative centre of Kilis Province and Kilis District. Its population is 112,187 (2022).
On 6 February 2023 Kilis was badly affected by the tw ...
,
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
, near the
Syrian border
Syrians () are the majority inhabitants of Syria, indigenous to the Levant, most of whom have Arabic, especially its Levantine and Mesopotamian dialects, as a mother tongue. The cultural and linguistic heritage of the Syrian people is a blend ...
. The camp opened in 2012 and closed in 2019.
As of February 2014, it hosted 14,000 people.
The camp consisted of 2,053 containers, linked with brick paths. Several schools, kindergartens and playgrounds served the camp's 2,000 school children. The camp was fully operated by the Turkish
committee.
[
Kilis was one of the six "container camps" opened by Turkey, which sought to offer a higher life quality than traditional tent camps.]Elbeyli District
Elbeyli, formerly Alimantar, is a town and the administrative seat of Elbeyli District in the Kilis Province in Turkey. Its population is 1,974 (2022). The town is inhabited by Turkomans of the Barak
Barak ( or ; ; Tiberian Hebrew: '' Bār ...
.
References
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Refugee camps in Turkey
Syrian refugee camps
Kilis Province