Syrian children left orphan by the 2 year-old Syrian civil war have a woeful Ramadan in the orphanage built by the benefactors in Reyhanli district of Turkish southern-most Hatay province.
Having lost their parents at the bloody war, some of the Syrian children in the districts and villages of Syria's Idlib are brought to Turkey by the Syrian people.
A 3-room house in Reyhanli, transformed into an orphanage thanks to the efforts of benefactors, shelter Syrian children, providing them all they need.
Ranging from a 2 month-old baby to an 14 year-old teenage, 15 Syrian children pine after their deceased parents in the holy month of Ramadan, some of them fasting and praying.
Losing her father in a mortar attack targeting her home, Betul Sayhan, 12, told the Anadolu Agency that the Syrian people are in need more than ever in Ramadan.
"We want freedom in Syria for children. Let no children die any more and lose their parents. Syrian war continues in Ramadan. We are orphans because of this war. As children, we have no chance to work but lead a helpless life from now on," she said, thanking Turkey for sheltering them.
Seyhan went on to say, "I called upon all humane and tenderhearted brothers and sisters to help end the war in my country and prevent more children from dying."
Escaping the civil war in Syria, Ahmed Kurdi also came to Hatay's Reyhanli and now teaches Qur'an to the Syrian children.
He stressed that the Syrian children, believing in the virtue of Ramadan, are fasting and praying for Ramadan to embrace all with the mercy it brings.
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