New batch of forcibly deported refugees arrives in Syria | Turkish authorities deport 100 Syrians in 48 hours through Bab Al-Salama crossing

Aleppo province: Turkish authorities continue forcible deportation of Syrian refugees for the second day in a row through Bab Al-Salama crossing in Azaz countryside in northern Aleppo countryside.

According to SOHR sources, Turkish government deported today nearly 100 Syrian refugees, including children and women, from Turkey to northern Syria, under the pretext that “they did not have identity documents.”

Accordingly, the number of Syrians who have been forcibly deported towards Syrian territory through Bab Al-Salama crossing in Azaz countryside in northern Aleppo during the past 48 hours increased to 300.

Turkish government aims at deporting Syrian refugees from Turkey by force and resettle them in the residential complexes, which it had established in the so-called “safe zone,” as a part of demographic change in “Euphrates Shield,” “Olive Branch” and “Peace Spring” areas in Aleppo and Al-Hasakah, where a third of the region’s indigenous inhabitants have already been displaced to other areas.

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that Turkish authorities deported 200 Syrian refugees from Turkey to Syrian territory in the early hours of Tuesday morning, through Bab Al-Salama crossing in northern Azaz countryside within “Euphrates Shield” area in order to settle them in the residential complexes which had built in the region.

Forced deportation operations are also  under the pretext that the Syrian refugees do not have identity documents, but some of people who deported having Turkish identity cards “Kimlik.”