Turkey: 400,000 Syrian Refugees Have Returned to Their Country
Turkey says 400,000 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland, with 3.58 million Syrian refugees now remaining in Turkey.
During Syria’s civil war and the expansion of ISIS territory in the country, approximately four million Syrian refugees fled to Turkey, with one million of them coming solely from the Idlib region, who have been displaced since December of last year due to increased attacks by Bashar Assad’s forces with Russian air support.
Following these attacks, the Turkish army entered border areas with Syria and cleared a zone stretching 120 kilometers in length and 30 kilometers in width along the Turkey-Syria border of paramilitary forces.
Turkey had announced it intended to settle 3.6 million Syrian refugees in this region.
Source: Radio Farda
