"For the moment, we have not witnessed any budget cuts or project suspensions or delays," Metin Corabatir, an expert on refugee issues and chief of the Research Center on Asylum and Migration, said.

However, he went on, "if the economic stress continues and transforms into a crisis, we can expect that Syrian refugees will suffer from it because most of them work informally in Turkey and they can easily become jobless if their employers go bankrupt."

DECLINE OF PURCHASING POWER

The depreciation of Turkish lira has also impacted many refugees as they have seen their modest income crumble away, reducing dramatically their purchasing power like the same situation for the entire population of Turkey.

As part of an United Nations program, the Turkish Red Crescent Society delivers 120 liras (20 dollars) monthly per person by debit card to some 1.3 million Syrians. Many others work in the black market and are vehemently prone to Turkey's economic trouble.

"Life for the refugees would be even more difficult than it is right now if Turkey sinks deeper in economic trouble," emphasized Corabatir, who also pointed out that this situation would inexorably affect European countries once thousands of refugees hosted in Turkey leave for the wealthier European continent, causing a new wave of immigration, and surely a political crisis in the European Union.

Things are getting tighter by the day for Syrians working in big cities as their power of purchase declines because of regular price hikes.

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