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Turkish-funded camps help Syrian refugees have homes

Syrian mother of four Maryam al-Hussein was relieved to have a roof over her head as she moved from a tent camp into a housing complex built with Turkish support. "When I first heard that we were moving into a house, I couldn't believe it," the 28-year-old widow told AFP in opposition-held northern Syria. "I was so happy that I couldn't think of anything other than the move," she said, sitting outside her new concrete home.

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"These houses do not make up for what we have lost," said the father of six, displaced from Aleppo with his wife nearly a decade ago. "We have lost homes, land and martyrs," he said, adding that after years of surviving in tents, "I am forced to live here".