93 SURVIVING THROUGH TACTICS: THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF SYRIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY A. Banu Hülür, Yusuf Ekİncİ, A. Çağlar Deniz Introduction 1 Te uprising in Syria, initially starting in March 2011 as democratic protests against the regime and later transforming into a continuous war due to the intervention of neighboring countries and global powers, has killed hundreds of thousands of people and caused more than half a million injuries. As the war has become a massive humanitarian crisis with millions of people driven from their homes, Syria’s neighboring countries such as Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq have faced an un- precedentedly large infux of asylum seekers. Almost half of the asylum seekers who arrived in Turkey are concentrated in border cities such as Gaziantep, Kilis, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Hatay and Kahramanmaraş. Syr- ian asylum seekers who sought refuge in Turkey were settled in two ways: the frst group were settled in refugee camps (temporary shel- ters), where they frst lived in tents or container-cities established by the Turkish state. Te second group settled either in cities bordering their homeland or on the peripheries of large metropolises. Some asy- lum seekers from the latter group determined their settlement country/ city according to their existing family and kinship ties. It is important 1 Tis study is an updated and revised version of another article, written in Turkish and originally published in Te Journal of International Social Research 9, no. 42 (2016): 1077‒1087. https://doi.org/10.35469/poligraf.2021.284 Poligraf, no. 101/102, vol. 26, 2021, pp. 93–124