New regime resolution | Syrians with Turkish citizenship not to review “intelligence services”

The Immigration and Passports Service of the regime’s government has issued a circular cancelling a previous decision providing for the review of Syrians with Turkish citizenship “Intelligence Services” upon returning to Syria.

The text of the resolution reads as follows:

Based on Intelligence Division letter 294 No. 146000/X/294 dated 31/10/2022,
we cancel circular No. 51531/A, dated 30/10/2018 and later, No. 10777/P, 15/7/202, which assign Syrian citizens of Turkish nationality to review the Intelligence Division, section 235.

 

Earlier, SOHR activists reported that two Kurdish families from Afrin were deported by Turkish authorities to Syria.

A member of the deported family said in a videotape obtained by SOHR that the Turkish authorities deported them to Syria after informing them of the need to renew their IDs and resident identity cards. When the two families went to Immigration and Passports Service, they were told that the department was closed, and they have to go to a newly open department to complete the procedures. Then Turkish authorities took them by car and involuntarily deported them to Syria, without allowing them to return to their homes in Turkey.

The man also asserts that the two families cannot return to their homes in Afrin, due to the seizure of their land and properties by Turkish forces and their proxy factions.

Accordingly, the number of people who were deported by the Turkish authorities in October has raised to 2,301 Syrian refugees, who hold the “temporary protection” cards (Kimlik), handed to them by the Turkish Immigration Department.