refugees in Turkey

Zaher Said came to Turkey in July 2011. He's holding his Syrian passport, which is about to expire, in his home in Gaziantep, Turkey, on May 20, 2017.

The bureaucratic nightmare of obtaining a Syrian passport abroad

June 30, 2017
Conflict

A Syrian passport once cost $9 and took only a few hours to issue. As the Syrian conflict enters its seventh year, Syrians in Turkey are paying up to $2,000 and waiting for months to get one of the world’s weakest passports.

The bureaucratic nightmare of obtaining a Syrian passport abroad

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