Ala Jaber cries as he waits to cross the border to return to Syria, along with his 10-year-old daughter, thirteen years after war forced him to flee his home. Jaber is returning from Turkey, without his wife and three of his children – all of whom were killed in the devastating earthquakes that hit the region last year. Father and daughter fled after Syrian rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad. Yesterday, the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that the Yalantagi border crossing would be opened to allow some of the 3 million Syrian refugees hosted in the country to pass. “Just as I cried for the children I lost in the earthquake, today I cry because I am leaving Hatay and Turkey behind,” said Jaber, a former marine who fled Syria in 2011. The 2023 earthquakes killed more than 50,000 people in southern Turkey. One of the hardest hit areas was this […]
Source: News Beast
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