Approximately three million Syrian refugees live in Turkey.
Almost 31,000 Syrians have returned from Turkey to their homeland since the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar Assad less than three weeks ago, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Friday. TASR informs about it according to the AFP report.
Turkey is home to approximately three million Syrian refugees who fled Syria before the civil war that broke out in 2011. “The number of people who returned is 30,663,” the Turkish minister said, adding that 30 percent of them were born in Turkey. .
Their number increased by about 5,000 in just three days. Yerlikaya said on Tuesday that more than 25,000 Syrians have returned to their homeland from Turkey, who will be able to leave and return to Turkey three times in the first half of 2025.
The minister also announced on Friday that Ankara will open a migration office in Syria’s second largest city, Aleppo. Most of the Syrian refugees living in Turkey come from Aleppo, writes AFP.
Turkey will also reopen its consulate general in Aleppo within a few days, the minister added. Ankara reopened its embassy in Damascus on December 14, less than a week after rebels from the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group toppled Assad. Turkey is the first country to renew its mission in Syria. The Turkish Embassy has been closed since March 2012.
