{"id":31960,"date":"2017-01-20T01:53:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/unicef-40-of-syrian-children-in-turkey-not-in\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T01:53:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T01:53:41","slug":"unicef-40-of-syrian-children-in-turkey-not-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/unicef-40-of-syrian-children-in-turkey-not-in\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF: 40% of Syrian children in Turkey not in school"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Risk of ‘lost generation’ as UN agency says 380,000 Syrian child refugees miss formal education at present in Turkey.}<\/p>\n

About 380,000 Syrian children of school age are missing out on education in Turkey, raising the risk of a “lost generation”, according to the UN children’s fund UNICEF.<\/p>\n

More than 40 percent of Syrian child refugees in Turkey are not in education at present, the agency said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Justin Forsyth, UNICEF’s deputy executive director, praised Ankara for enrolling 50 percent of Syrian child refugees since June, but said more needed to be done.<\/p>\n

“Unless more resources are provided, there is still a very real risk of a ‘lost generation’ of Syrian children, deprived of the skills they will one day need to rebuild their country,” Forsyth added.<\/p>\n

He was speaking after a visit to southern Turkey where hundreds of thousands of Syrians live in cities and inside camps.<\/p>\n

Ankara says close to half a million Syrian children out of 1.2 million in Turkey are enrolled in its schools.<\/p>\n

There are 2.7 million Syrian refugees in the country, according to UNICEF. Across the region, a total of 2.7 million Syrian children, most of them inside the war-ravaged country. <\/p>\n

Nearly 180,000 babies were born to Syrian refugees in Turkey between April 2011 and September 2016, Turkey’s health ministry said on Thursday, according to state-run Anadolu news agency.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said skilled Syrian and Iraqi refugees currently working in the black economy would be granted citizenship if they pass security tests.<\/p>\n

The conflict in Syria has killed more than 310,000 people since it began with anti-government protests in March 2011. <\/p>\n

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