Since the ouster of President Bashar Al Assad, more than 300,000 refugees have returned to Syria, and the United Nations said on Friday that almost a million more internally displaced people have returned home.
We’ve now crossed the 300,000 returns” barrier since Mr. Assad’s overthrow on December 8, Celine Schmitt of the UN refugee agency UNHCR told reporters in Geneva via video link from Damascus.
Turkey has been taking in around three million Syrian refugees, and it seems that nearly half of them came from there. Over 133,000 Syrians residing in Turkey have returned, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Thursday.
In addition to ending a civil war that killed over half a million people and displaced millions more, the rebel push that overthrew Mr. Assad broke his family’s 53-year hold on power. Ms. Schmitt declared that Syria is still “the world’s largest displacement crisis” and emphasized that the majority of those who had escaped the conflict were now keen to go back to their homes.
She added that another 900,000 Syrians who had been internally displaced have returned to their homelands in addition to the returning refugees. She said that one million internally displaced individuals in camps and other locations around northwest Syria planned to return home “within the next year,” according to a UNHCR study.
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