Turkiye said on the 15th local time that more than 7,000 Syrians staying in the country voluntarily returned home after Syrian rebels overthrew the regime.
Turkiye's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on social media that a total of 7,621 Syrians returned to their country in the five days from the 9th to the 13th.
On the 15th alone, 1,847 people crossed the border from Turkiye to Syria.
According to UNHCR statistics, Turkiye accepted 2,938,000 Syrian refugees, more than 60%, out of the 4,817,000 Syrian refugees registered in countries around the world as of last month.
Turkiye also reopened its embassy in Damascus on the 14th, which closed in 2012, the year after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war, for the first time in 12 years.
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