JAKARTA - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey who have returned to their country has reached 580,000.
"Israel's aggressive actions against Syria today are the biggest obstacle to long-term security and stability in the country," Erdogan said, quoted by Sputnik-OANA, Wednesday, December 17.
In April, Erdogan said that Turkey was hosting more than 4 million refugees, 2.7 million of whom were under temporary protection.
According to official Turkish migration data, there are currently more than 2.3 million Syrians in the country.
At the end of October, the Turkish government appointed Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yilmaz as ambassador to Syria for the first time since 2012. The Turkish Consulate General in Aleppo also resumed operations.
The daily Milliyet in early December reported that the Syrian Embassy in Ankara and the Syrian Consulate General in Gaziantep were being prepared to reopen.
Syrian armed groups seized the capital Damascus on December 8, 2024. President Bashar al-Assad then resigned and left the country.
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In January, Ahmed Sharaa, a former rebel commander, was declared Syria's interim president.
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