Turkey to build 25,000 new homes by year’s end to resettle Syrians

THE Turkey pledges not to push back Syrians refugees back to their country despite pressures from various circles and focus on improving living conditions for voluntary returnees. So the Anchor will build by the end of the year 25,000 new homes in order to relocate Syrian displaced persons which are located near the border with Turkey, announced the Turkish Minister of the Interior, Suleyman Soylu, during a visit to the zone under the control ofn rebels in Syria.

The minister inaugurated yesterday, Sunday600 residences in a housing complex in Mashhad Ruhin, in the northwest Syria, a few kilometers from the border with Turkey, an AFP correspondent found. Soylou stated that his country has already built 75,000 houses in the last two years. “God willing, we will have completed construction 100,000 homes until the end of the year”, announced the minister.

“Houses with hard walls are better than tents. There is no comparison,” Khadiya Al-Taha, a 70-year-old who came there with her daughter, told AFP. He lived in a camp with counter scenes after fleeing her home in the southern province of Idlib four years ago. Turkey, which opposed Bashar al-Assad’s regime early in the war, began deploying troops in northern Syria in 2020 where it controls some areas along with its Syrian allies.

THE Turkish pound it has become the main currency and Turkey has even contributed to the construction of hospitals, post offices and schools where the Turkish language is taught.

Source: News Beast

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