Refugee Council of Turkey - TMK

The Refugee Council of Turkey (TMK) was founded in 2016 as a civil society network bringing together refugee-led organizations and host community civil society organizations (CSOs) under the same umbrella. It was established by a group of CSOs in response to the need they perceived for better coordination and cooperation amongst refugee-led, local and national organizations working with diverse refugee and host communities in all parts of Turkey. The TMK exists to enable more effective and impactful collaboration amongst these actors. It supports them to jointly advocate for better policies and programs for refugees and host communities and to contribute to the improvement of international humanitarian and refugee protection policy and practice by sharing lessons learned with their counterparts in other countries. Members build strategic relations with municipalities, ministries and government agencies, bilateral and multilateral donors, and others to achieve these aims.