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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Turkey deports 425 Syrian, Iraqi refugees to Syria
2023-08-30
[NPASYRIA] On Tuesday, Ottoman Turkish authorities intensified their campaign to forcibly deport Syrians towards northern Syrian areas. The number of deportees in the past 24 hours exceeded 425 refugees, including Iraqis.

A private source informed North Press that the Ottoman Turkish authorities handed over more than 160 refugees, including 35 women with their children, to Military Police, affiliated with the Ottoman Turkish-backed armed opposition factions, aka Syrian National Army (SNA), through Tel Abyad crossing north of Raqqa Governorate, northern Syria.

The source added that 265 refugees, including more than 51 women with their children, were also deported towards areas under the influence of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
(HTS — formerly al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front) in Idlib, through Bab al-Hawa crossing.

The source further stated that the deportation process took place after obtaining all the identification documents and biometric data of the deportees to prevent their permanent return.

The deportees’ relatives residing inside The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
were not informed about the deportation of their loved ones, according to the source.

Exclusive sources told North Press that the number of Syrian deportees through the Tel Abyad, Bab al-Salama, and Bab al-Hawa crossings in northern Syria has exceeded 13,500 people during August, with expectations of an increase in the next month.

Posted by:Fred

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