Some 550,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey 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 Turkey, he said, from a 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 that some 1.9 million internally displaced people had been able to return home.
According to the UN more than 7 million Syrians continue to be internally displaced, and some 4.5 million refugees remain abroad.
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