
The Presidency's Directorate of Communications Counter Disinformation Center denied the claim that the Turkish Armed Forces prevented residents of some villages in the Syria-Rasulayn region from returning to their homes and stated that the situation of families who want to return to the region is being followed in coordination with relevant institutions.
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During the Syrian civil war, Türkiye controls some regions in northern Syria and carries out procedures regarding the safe return of refugees.
The Presidency's Directorate of Communications Counterinformation Center (DMM) denied the claim that "Turkish Armed Forces are preventing the residents of some villages in Ras al-Ayn, Syria, from returning to their homes" published in some international media outlets and social media accounts.
In the statement made on DMM's social media account, it was stated that the claim in question was not true. In the statement, it was stated that the situation of families who want to return to the region is being followed in coordination with relevant institutions in Syria within the scope of the SDF's integration process.
The Center emphasized that there is no practice by the Turkish Armed Forces to prevent these returns:
"We are kindly requested not to pay attention to purposeful and unfounded publications that try to target Turkey by distorting the process, and to follow the information on the subject only from the statements of official authorities."
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The Center for Combating Disinformation announced that the claim in some international press and social media accounts that families wishing to return from Syria were blocked by the Turkish Armed Forces is not true. The Center stated that the process was being followed in coordination with relevant institutions in Syria and recommended that official statements be followed.