Turkish organization in Germany open their hearts, homes to Syrian refugees

Wednesday 09 Sep 2015 - 12:07 Makkah mean time-25-11-1436

Head office of the Islamic Community Milli Görüş in Köln, Germany (Google image)

Berlin, (IINA) - Opening their hearts and homes to Syrian refugees, a leading humanitarian Turkish organization operating in Germany has stepped forward to offer migrants and refugees deserved help, mobilizing all efforts to cater to their needs, according to media reports.
"Unfortunately, not a day passes now where we don't hear news of another refugee story," Kemal Ergun, Chairman of the Germany Milli Gorus organization, the Islamic Community of National Vision (ICMG), said in a statement quoted by World Bulletin
"What is more important is we only know what is happening if its reported in the media, and it's those things that are not reported which are the most important," he added.
The refugees are our guests until they can establish themselves with dignity. They are guests firstly of our hearts and our homes and we'll do all we can to help them. We will mobilize all resources to ensure they have whatever they need. This is done without separation of religion or race. As AMGM, our society and our community will strive to do all for our refugee brothers and sisters. We see this as a blessing and an honour, and our faith commands to take responsibility for this".
Some 350,000 migrants have made the perilous journey to reach Europe's shores since January this year, according to figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday.
The IOM said more than 2,600 migrants had drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean in the same period. A photo of a three-year-old Syrian toddler lying face down on the beach, after he and his family drowned, has sparked worldwide cry over this week. Last month, more than 100,000 asylum seekers reached Germany, which is preparing for 800,000 this year, around one percent of its population, a move with little precedent for a large Western country.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated her support for quotas for distributing refugees, telling a news conference in Berlin: “This joint European asylum system cannot just exist on paper but must also exist in practice – I say that because it lays out minimum standards for accommodating refugees and the task of registering refugees.”
For German Muslims, welcoming refugees was a religious duty of sheltering those in calamity. Germany has Europe's second-biggest Muslim population after France, and Islam comes third in Germany after Protestant and Catholic Christianity.
It has between 3.8 and 4.3 million Muslims, making up some 5 percent of the total 82 million population, according to government-commissioned studies.
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