Over half a million Syrians have returned home from Türkiye
On Saturday, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that approximately 550,000 Syrian refugees in Türkiye have returned to their homeland since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December of the previous year.
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- Published Date: 06:54 | 01 November 2025
Some 550,000 Syrian refugees in Türkiye have returned home following the fall of Bashar al-Assad last December, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Saturday.
Almost 2.4 million Syrian refugees remain in Türkiye, he said, from the high of more than 3.5 million Syrians who had sheltered there at one point.
The UN refugee agency on Friday said that 1.16 million Syrians had returned to the country after Assad's regime fell on December 8, 2024, and some 1.9 million internally displaced people had been able to return to their homes.
According to the UN, more than seven million Syrians continue to be internally displaced, and some 4.5 million refugees remain abroad.
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