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| Two children repatriated from Iraq to Azerbaijan | |
| 2022-05-26 | |
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The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Azerbaijani authorities periodically report on the return of natives of the country from the countries of the Middle East. From 2018 to the end of 2020, 248 children were returned from Iraq. In 2021, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported on the return of children from Iraq, Syria and Turkey. On November 24, 2021, the Azerbaijani authorities returned to their homeland 12 natives of the country who were kept in the Amerna camp in the city of Jerablus in Syria. On March 31 , seven citizens of Azerbaijan were repatriated from the same camp . Two children kept in a correctional facility in Iraq were repatriated today along the Baghdad-Istanbul-Baku route, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told in the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry. According to the ministry, the children's belonging to Azerbaijani citizenship was first established, and then the country's embassy in Iraq provided them with "certificates of return" and air tickets. The Consulate General of Azerbaijan in Istanbul facilitated the rapid passage of children at the airport. Upon arrival in Azerbaijan, the repatriates underwent the necessary medical examination and were placed in an appropriate institution for reintegration and rehabilitation. After the completion of the relevant procedures, the children will be handed over to relatives, the Foreign Ministry said. The number of Azerbaijani citizens repatriated from Iraq has reached 290 people - these are 288 children and two women, the ministry informed. According to Tofig Turkel, an observer for the Turan agency on the Middle East, in recent years, the Azerbaijani authorities have been repatriating children and women from Iraq and Syria from the families of people who once went to fight in these countries as part of various armed formations. "Some created families there, and children were already born in these countries. After the liquidation of these terrorist groups, the death, arrest or flight of militants, women and children of foreigners, including Azerbaijanis, were placed in special camps, shelters or were kept in places of detention. According as Azerbaijani citizenship is established, these people are returned back. It often happens that children have lost both parents, and the establishment of their citizenship takes a certain time. After the return of children without parents, they are usually given to close relatives - on the paternal or maternal side. Usually, such children are taken by uncles, aunts or grandparents. If there are none, then children are sent to orphanages," Turkel told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. | |
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