Syrian Refugees in Turkey Miss Home on Eid

Almost two million Syrians have taken refuge in neighboring Turkey. Many of them have been separated from their families. Even as he was fighting the crowds to buy sweets for Eid, Omer Omer was thinking about home. “I’m not very comfortable here, away from my parents. They live in a village in Syria. I’m here, they are over there,” he said. He is one hundreds of thousands of Syrians spending their Eid in Istanbul. Many of them have divided families. Some with relatives still in...

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