Turkey deports 30 Syrians to alleged Safe Zone
ALEPPO, (North Press) – On Sunday at night, Turkish authorities deported 30 Syrians to areas in the countryside of Aleppo through Bab al-Salameh border crossing close to the city of Azaz in north Aleppo.
An exclusive source told North Press that the Turkish authorities handed over 30 Syrians young men, who were kept in detentions of Migration Management in a number of Turkish states, to the administration of Bab al-Salameh border crossing on the Syrian side.
The source added the majority of the young men had dully obtained Temporary Protection Card (Kimlik); nonetheless, they were deported after days of being detained.
Early in June, Turkish media outlets circulated the news that the Turkish authorities in Istanbul arrested 200 refugees mostly Syrians as a part of a security operation to deport them to Syria.
In a televised interview in May, Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said that his country plans to build about 250.000 houses in northern Syria in al-Bab, Jarablus, Ras al-Ain and Tel Abyad, with “the aim of providing the voluntary return for one million Syrians.”
He added that these projects would be funded by international relief organizations, and would target the Turkey-based Syrian refugees who hold the temporary protection ID card (Kimlik).
The Turkish authorities continue to deport hundreds of Syrians to areas held by the Syrian opposition factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA) in the northern countryside of Aleppo under offending refuge regulations and non-obtaining the Kimlik that entitles refugees to work.
On May 3, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan disclosed about his plan to settle about one million Syrian refugees in 13 Syrian areas, which are not the areas the refugees are originally from, adjacent to the southern border of Turkey starting from Azaz in the west to Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain) in the east.
“We are preparing a new project for the voluntary return of one million Syrian brothers who are in our country as guests,” Erdogan said.