Mayors in Turkiye municipalities launch campaigns to facilitate return of Syria refugees

Mayors in some Turkish municipalities are launching campaigns to assist Syrian refugees in returning to Syria after the fall of the Assad regime, in a trend which has been criticised by some as “racist”. Following the collapse of former Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad’s regime on Sunday, brought on by a rapid rebel offensive which saw the opposition capture the country’s major cities and its capital, Damascus, a new possibility has opened for the safe and voluntary return of the millions of Syrian refugees who fled the country since the start of the civil war in 2011. That includes over three million of the refugees who gained shelter in Turkiye over the years, with the situation especially offering the Turkish government […]