ISTANBUL: More than 25,000 Syrians have returned home from Turkiye since Bashar Assad was overthrown by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham militants, Turkiye’s interior minister said Tuesday.
Turkiye is home to nearly three million refugees who fled the civil war that broke out in 2011, and whose presence has been an issue for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
“The number of people returning to Syria in the last 15 days has exceeded 25,000,” Ali Yerlikaya told the official Anadolu news agency.
Ankara is in close touch with Syria’s new leaders and now focussing on the voluntary return of Syrian refugees, hoping the shift in power in Damascus will allow many of them to return home.
Yerlikaya said a migration office would be established in the Turkish embassy and consulate in Damascus and Aleppo so that the records of returning Syrians could be kept.
Turkiye reopened its embassy in Damascus, nearly a week after Assad was toppled by forces backed by Ankara, and 12 years after the diplomatic outpost was shuttered early in Syria’s civil war.
![]()
Turkiye says over 25,000 Syrians returned home since Assad’s fall
Short Url
https://arab.news/4h8cx
Turkiye says over 25,000 Syrians returned home since Assad’s fall
- Ankara is in close touch with Syria’s new leaders and now focussing on the voluntary return of Syrian refugees
Around 50,000 Syrians returned from Lebanon in last week: UN
- Around 50,000 Syrians living in Lebanon have fled back over the border into Syria in the past week, the United Nations’ migration agency said Friday
GENEVA: Around 50,000 Syrians living in Lebanon have fled back over the border into Syria in the past week, the United Nations’ migration agency said Friday.
“Nearly 50,000 Syrians have crossed from Lebanon into Syria over the past week, not including those who may have crossed yesterday following the evacuation orders,” Mathieu Luciano, the Lebanon mission chief for the International Organization for Migration, said in a statement.
“Nearly 50,000 Syrians have crossed from Lebanon into Syria over the past week, not including those who may have crossed yesterday following the evacuation orders,” Mathieu Luciano, the Lebanon mission chief for the International Organization for Migration, said in a statement.
Latest updates
© 2026 SAUDI RESEARCH & PUBLISHING COMPANY, All Rights Reserved And subject to Terms of Use Agreement.