Europe News Desk!!! At least 10,633 Syrian refugees have returned to their homeland in the country after a devastating earthquake struck southern Turkey earlier this month. The Defense Minister of Turkey said this in a statement on Sunday. Our Syrian brothers who lost their families and places of residence in the earthquake voluntarily returned to their land, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said during a visit to military border posts in the quake-hit southern province of Hatay, Xinhua news agency quoted Anadolu Agency as saying. Went. The semi-official Anadolu Agency reported that the minister denied allegations that Syrians were moving towards the Turkish border after the massive earthquake. Turkey is home to some 3.5 million Syrian refugees who fled their country after the civil war broke out in 2011. About half of the refugees are taking refuge in southern Turkey, which was recently hit by devastating earthquakes that caused tremendous devastation in the region. More than 46,000 people have died in Turkey and Syria since earthquakes of magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 struck Turkey’s southern province of Kahmanmaras on February 6.
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