Squatting in Syria

Squatting in Syria is the occupation of unused land or derelict buildings without the permission of the owner. Archaeologists have found evidence of squatting at the ancient city of Tell Brak (in what is now Syria). Armenian refugees squatted in the 1920s and more recently informal settlements formed around cities such as Aleppo and the capital Damascus as people migrated from rural areas. The ongoing Syrian civil war which began in 2011 has displaced many people, some of whom squatted in Greece.