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ICMC Turkey

ICMC has been working in Turkey since 1967, when the Overseas Processing Entity was first opened to support the resettlement of refugees to the United States. 

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ICMC Turkey

ICMC Turkey
Poyracik Sokak No. 35
Nisantasi
34365 Şişli-Istanbul
Turkey
Phone : +90 212 219 2055
Fax : +90 212 219 1601

 

Staff: Linda Samardzic
RSC Director		 email: lsamardzic@icmc.net
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ICMC Turkey
Programmes & Projects

Resettlement Support Center (RSC) for refugee resettlement

For three decades, ICMC has proudly partnered with the US State Department to conduct resettlement processing and cultural orientation (CO) for hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking to be resettled in the United States. Read more

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Related News

Turkey: Governor’s welcome offers refugees a refreshing reprieve on World Refugee Day

TURKEY, 20 June 2011—Rarely able to travel far beyond their host city of Afyonkarahisar, Turkey, nearly 200 refugees relished the opportunity to gather at the 26th of August Natural Park for a festive day of food, games and children’s crafts some 20 kilometers outside of the town centre, in celebration of World Refugee Day.Read more

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Resettlement working group targets concrete solutions for refugees, draws on ICMC expertise

GENEVA, 31 January 2011 (ICMC)—Looking ahead to a year marked by critical, continued need for global resettlement efforts, ICMC representatives exchanged practical expertise with leading government, non-governmental (NGO) and UNHCR delegates, all gathered in Geneva for the tri-partite Working Group on Resettlement (WGR).Read more

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Home of happiness: Catholic Iraqi refugees get new start

LITTLE ROCK, 8 January 2011 (Arkansas Catholic)—"Do you know what I am going to do to you?" The cold steel of the pistol against his temple and the acrid smell of gunpowder in the air, Ayman Abbosh knew what the terrorist was going to do, but he dared not answer.Read more

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Vulnerable refugees to continue benefitting from resettlement support

ISTANBUL—For three decades, ICMC has proudly partnered with the US State Department to identify and prepare hundreds of thousands of refugees for resettlement to the United States. Following another record year in which nearly 30 percent of all Iraqi refugees resettled to the US between 1 October 2008 and 30 September 2009 were directly assisted by ICMC, the organisation has renewed its partnership with the US government for the continued resettlement of those facing the most dire protection risks in their country of first asylum.Read more

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Turkey

ICMC joins US officials in promoting refugee resettlement to the US

TURKEY, 5-13 November 2009—ICMC representatives join delegates from the US Department of State, the American embassy and the UN Refugee Agency in a field mission to promote and strengthen the US refugee resettlement process locally.Read more

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Turkey

US Consul General visits ICMC Turkey

ISTANBUL 5 February 5, 2009 — ICMC Turkey, the regional Overseas Processing Entity (OPE) for the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, had the pleasure of receiving Sharon Wiener, the United States Consul General in Istanbul.Read more

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Refugee resettlement

Life after Iraq: Separate lives

Hakim* and his sister are Iraqi refugees, having fled their country when violence touched their lives. While both are refugees, he and his family now live in Madison Heights, USA, while she and her family are in Damascus, Syria, awaiting resettlement. Here is his story.Read more

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Related Publications
Strategic plan 2007 - 2011

Analysis, perspectives and action

ICMC's four-year Strategic Plan, following the July 2006 ICMC Council Meeting.Read more

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