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Over 1,800 Refugees Return From Turkiye to Syria

© AP Photo / Dia Photo/Ugur YildirimSmoke billows as people arrive to celebrate the fall of the Syrian government, in Damascus
Smoke billows as people arrive to celebrate the fall of the Syrian government, in Damascus - Sputnik International, 1920, 15.12.2024
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ANKARA (Sputnik) - Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has said that the number of Syrian refugees, who returned to their homeland from Turkiye since December 8, has increased to 1,847 people.
"Currently, there are 2,938,261 Syrians in our country. The number of Syrians, who voluntarily returned to their country, stood at 240 people as of December 8, when the regime [of former Syrian President Bashar Assad] fell in Damascus, but after the liberation of Syria, this number increased to 1,847 people as of yesterday," Yerlikaya was quoted as saying by media.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has previously vowed to simplify the procedures for the voluntary return of Syrians to their homeland. As of early December, over 2.9 million Syrian refugees resided in Turkiye, including over 1.5 million minors.
Syrian refugees walk through a camp for displaced muddied by recent rains near the village of Kafr Aruq , in Idlib province, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. - Sputnik International, 1920, 14.12.2024
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