BEIRUT
Chairman of the Board and Director General of the Anadolu Agency (AA) Kemal Ozturk on Monday visited Syrian Turkmen refugees living in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
Kemal Ozturk told the Syrian Turkmens that he would make the necessary initiatives so that the necessary aid materials reach the Syrian Turkmen refugees.
AA's regional office in Beirut will be opened with a ceremony on Tuesday. Visiting Lebanon for inauguration Kemal Ozturk on Monday went to the Duris village near Baalbek city in the Bekaa Valley where Syrian Turkmen refugees live.
Ozturk visited booths where seven Syrian Turkmen families lived and listened to them.
A Turkmen woman, Safiye Goorli, said that they were living in a tent with four children and that their home was in Cusi village, some 60 kilometers from the Lebanese border in Syria, which was bombed by Assad forces after they extended support to the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
"We had to take shelter in Lebanon. We continue to survive thanks to the aid materials provided by NGOs. We are in a very difficult position and need all kinds of aid materials," Goorli noted.
Kemal Ozturk underlined that the Syrian Turkmen should be patient and that they wanted the problems of Syrians to be solved very soon.
I will make initiatives so that the NGOs in Turkey extend the necessary support to the Syrian Turkmen living in villages of Lebanon, Ozturk stated.
Deputy Mayor of Duris, Ali Goorli stressed that he was an executive of an NGO.
"There are around 1,000 Syrians as part of 200 families living in the region. We try to help them through assistance we receive from several international aid organizations. Our opportunities are very limited and so we need all forms of assistance," Ali Goorli also said.
