ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Turkish interior minister announced on Saturday that over 500,000 Syrians have left Turkey since the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December.
"From December 8, 2024, to today, 550,000 of our Syrian brothers and sisters have made voluntary, safe, dignified and orderly returns to their country,” Ali Yerlikaya said on X.
A coalition of rebel factions led by the Syrian Interim President, Ahmed al-Sharaa, ousted Assad in an operation that concluded on December 8.
“Since 2016, the number of Syrians who have made voluntary, safe, dignified and orderly returns to their homeland has reached 1 million 290 thousand,” added the Turkish minister.