The Minister of Internal Affairs of Turkey Ali Yerlika said that over the last month after the overthrow of the Baas regime, 52 thousand 622 Syrians returned to Syria from Turkey.
In his statement for the media at the Gilwegean border checkpoint in the Reikhanly area, the minister noted that a month has passed since the fall of Assada.
Having stated that the 61-year-old cruel regime that oppressed their own people, who neglected the rights and freedoms of man and left innocent children without mothers and fathers, fell, Yerliky said:
“Assad fled, the Syrians again gained freedom. Turkey supported the Syrian brothers and sisters from the very beginning. As President Erdogan said, we were on the right side of the story, opposing the oppressor and on the side of the oppressed. Our state with all its institutions, non -governmental organizations and conscious citizens healed the wounds of Syrian refugees. “
The minister specified that 2 million 888 thousand 876 Syrians live in Turkey.
According to him, in 2017, a voluntary, safe, honorable and ordered return of the Syrians to their homeland began, their number reached 792,625 people
“After the fall of the BAAS regime, the number of returning is growing every day. Over the past month, 9 thousand 729 families or 52 thousand 622 Syrians returned to their homeland,” said the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Turkey.