International trade union representatives on a fact-finding mission to the Turkish-Syrian border found local authorities struggling to support Kurdish refugees fleeing the barbaric violence of the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria, and called for greater transparency on how Turkey has spent and distributed international aid.

Mac Urata of ITF wrote his remarks about Global Unions’ fact finding missions in Diyarbakır & Suruç. He met refugees and workers from Shengal and Kobane, Iraq and Syria. It was not a charity but solidarity against man-made humanitarian crisis in the region.