Approximately 70% of the water that flows into Iraq comes from neighbouring countries, including the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers that originate in Turkey. As a result, plans to fill a huge reservoir behind the Ilisu in the Tigris River has sparked controversy.

Media outlets have reported that Turkish authorities will close five Syrian refugee camps and relocate the inhabitants to camps near the Syrian border.

In the multicultural city of Mardin in southeastern Turkey, a Syrian refugee made her life taking care of the Syriac Mor Petrus and Mor Pavlus church. The refugee who arrived in Mardin in 2016 says it is hard for her to return to Syria.