Turkey arrests 11 Syrians to deport to northwest Syria
ISTANBUL, Turkey (North Press) – A Turkish Anti-Smuggling Team arrested 11 Syrians who entered Turkey from Syria illegally on Tuesday.
“The Syrians were on a bus on the Tarsus-Adana-Gaziantep Highway, and after they were arrested, they were handed over to Immigration Department in the city of Osmaniya,” local sources told North Press.
The Immigration Department is taking measures related to their deportation and return to Syrian territory.
A number of Syrian refugees expressed their rejection of the arrests and deportations carried out against them.
On February 8, sources interested in the conditions of Syrians in Turkey said that Turkish authorities continue to deport Syrian refugees from their lands to northwestern Syria under pretexts and excuses related to their lack of necessary legal documents.
According to a statement published by the Bab al-Hawa border crossing management, the number of Syrian refugees deported from Turkey to northern Syria in January 2021 reached 2,229.
Earlier in February, the Bab al-Salameh crossing management published statistics on the number of deported Syrian refugees, among them 59 Syrian refugees who were “forcibly” deported to Syrian territory permanently.
Turkish authorities carry out occasional campaigns related to the arrest of Syrian violators, and then organize the necessary files against them to deport them to Syria.
About 4 million Syrians live in Turkey, according to Turkish official statistics.