Antalya is for many a tourist paradise. For about 800 orphans from Ukraine, however, it became a refuge. First for a semester.
With the help of Turkish businessmen and Ankara, Ukrainian businessman Ruslan Sosdak is hosting orphaned children from Ukraine in hotels in Antalya. For the next period, they plan to transfer another 2,000 children and their caregivers from Ukraine to Antalya.
Children play in one of Antalya’s playgrounds and businessman Ruslan Sosdak watches them with satisfaction: “I’m glad they moved here safely for a few months. It’m my honor to do something for these kids.”
Do they feel like refugees or tourists?
When the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in late February, the Ukrainian businessman was in Antalya. He knew that in his homeland about 80,000 orphans lived in various institutions and he thought of protecting as much as he could from the traumatic experiences of the war. Among the children now at the Turkish tourist resort is ten-year-old Hannah: “I’m glad we came, because rockets and planes are not flying over our heads here. I heard the planes and the explosions. I was very scared!”
Antalya is known to the Ukrainians. Many people spend their summers here. For the accompanying children Gevgenia Rebecca, the situation is strange. How do curators and children feel? As tourists or as refugees? “I find it difficult to answer the question. We do not feel like refugees. But because volunteers help us, we realize that we are somehow refugees. We lack nothing.”
Karin Senz (ARD, Kon / city)
Source: Deutsche Welle
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