Izmir, Turkey

A view of Basmane neighborhood from Izmir's Agorà. After the immigration agreement between the European Union and Turkey, on 2016, over 300,000 migrants of Kurdish and Syrian Arabic origin fleeing from the ongoing conflicts within Syria soughting refuge in Izmir's Basmane neighbourhod. They join the Kurds from southern Turkey and the Roma already resident here since the days of the Ottoman Empire.