Refuting claims of refugee inflow into Türkiye from the southern border, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar says “Syrian citizens crossed the border in one direction, from Türkiye to Syria.”
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10,633 Syrians have voluntarily returned to their dwelling nation throughout the border after two devastating earthquakes hit southern Türkiye and northern Syria earlier this month.
Inspecting the frontier from the land and air in Hatay province and talking with border officers, Turkish National Defence Minister Hulusi Akar on Sunday dismissed claims that there had been an inflow of Syrian refugees.
“Contrary to the idea that there were intense crossings into Türkiye, they (border officials) said Syrian citizens crossed the border in one direction, from Türkiye to Syria,” Akar stated.
“They stated that our Syrian brethren who lost their families and homes in the earthquake voluntarily returned to their homeland.”
“Thermal cameras and unmanned aerial vehicles are used to monitor our entire area of responsibility on a 24/7 basis. There’s no movement at the border and no attempt to cross,” he added.
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Over 46,000 lifeless
Türkiye has been a key transit level for irregular migrants, together with Syrians, who wish to cross into Europe to begin new lives, particularly these fleeing conflict and persecution of their international locations.
At least 40,689 folks have misplaced their lives and over 108,000 injured in two highly effective earthquakes that rocked southern Türkiye on February 6, in line with the most recent official figures.
The 7.7 and seven.6 magnitude earthquakes, centred within the Kahramanmaras province, affected greater than 13 million folks throughout 11 provinces, together with Adana, Adiyaman, Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Hatay, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye, Elazig and Sanliurfa.
In Syria, a minimum of 5,840 folks have been killed. The mixed demise toll within the two international locations is over 46,500.
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A child lady born below the rubble of the earthquake in northern Syria has been reunited together with her aunt and uncle after her mother and father and siblings died within the catastrophe
Afraa’s uncle-by-marriage guarantees to lift her alongside his personal daughter, who was born three days after the quake pic.twitter.com/SPVnKmUfLu
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