Abstract:

Human beings have been migrating to different places since first ages due to natural or man-made disasters. Recently number of refugees have increased rapidly because of the crisis happening in Syria and Turkey has become most effected country from this immigration waves. Although this is a problem at the international level, Turkey need to respond many of those problems in the first hand as it is the first stop in this immigration process. According to United Nations Human Rights Council statements Turkey accommodates 2.8 million refugees but actual number might be higher due to fact that illegal immigration is also an issue. Furthermore, Turkey will accommodate even more refugees until they are officially accepted as immigrants by other nations according to agreement has been signed with EU in 2016. In this situations people’s lives change forever and vulnerable groups such as children especially effected from the consequences and almost 50% of the refugees in Turkey are children. Although children’s right to play and attend recreational activities is protected by article 31 of “Convention on the Rights of the Child”, it is very hard to make sure that children’s rights to play is protected and respected in the situations children required to live in temporary accommodations as refugees. Therefore, this paper aim to explore the refugee children’s daily places in cities and whether their right to play is achieved in this situation. Furthermore, this paper discusses some possible strategies for fast and low cost play provision to advise local authorities.

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