Çiğli Municipality Refugee Information Office Opened

Çiğli Municipality opened the Refugee Counseling Office in line with its cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Çiğli Municipality, where vocational and hobby courses and legal and psychological counseling services are provided for disadvantaged groups. Dr. The Refugee Counseling Office was opened at Nermin Abadan Unat Women's Life Center. Çiğli Mayor Utku Gümrükçü, Senior Program Coordinator Torsten Haschenz, Emergency Coordinator David Savard, Recovery and Stability Project Manager Mohanad Amee, Recovery and Stability Project Support Officer Noor AL-HASHIMI, İzmir Office Manager Pınar Genç Akçakaya, Senior Project Assistant (Psychosocial) Support) Ayşe Kaplan, Field Engineer Semir Reyhan. After the opening ceremony, the delegation, which examined the Women's Life Center, was informed about the services and activities.

President Gümrükçü: “We act with the principle of fair and equal service”

Making a statement about the opening, Çiğli Mayor Utku Gümrükçü said, "We are working to provide equal service to everyone living in our district, regardless of race, religion or sect, in line with our understanding of social and communal municipality. According to unofficial figures, there are approximately seven thousand refugees who fled the war in Syria and took refuge in our district. Sixty percent of the refugees are children. They came to our country with great traumas. We are a municipality with limited financial resources. But we are people with a high sense of solidarity. With the support of IOM, Prof. Dr. We will carry out studies on the needs and integration of refugees in the Refugee Information Office, which we opened in our Nermin Abadan Unat Women's Life Center. We hope that the war and internal wrinkles will end as soon as possible and that everyone will live happily in their homeland.”