By Ece Toksabay and Tuvan Gumrukcu
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey is opening its Yayladagi border gate with Syria to handle the secure and voluntary return of hundreds of thousands of Syrian migrants it hosts, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated on Monday, after the sudden ouster of President Bashar al-Assad by the rebels.
In one of many greatest turning factors for the Center East in generations, rebels seized the Syrian capital Damascus and Assad fled to Russia, after 13 years of civil conflict and greater than 50 years of rule brutal from his household.
“We’re opening the Yayladagi border gate to crossings to keep away from any site visitors jams and ease site visitors,” Erdogan stated, talking after a cupboard assembly in Ankara.
The Yayladagi crossing level, near Syria's northwest border, has been closed since 2013 attributable to preventing close to the border.
“We can even handle the processing of voluntary returns of immigrants in a approach that fits our reception,” Erdogan stated.
Earlier on Monday, Overseas Minister Hakan Fidan stated Turkey would work for the voluntary and secure return of Syrian migrants it hosts.
Turkey – which has stated it was offering no assist and was not concerned within the offensive by Syrian opposition forces it has supported for years towards Assad – stated on Sunday it wished the information Syrian administration is inclusive and that Syrians decide their very own future.
In a speech to the Turkish Ambassadors' Convention in Ankara, Fidan stated Turkey was prepared to supply assist for Syria's reconstruction and was coordinating with all “regional actors and events.”
He added that Ankara would stand with the Syrians on this “new section” in Damascus, however that teams such because the Islamic State and the Kurdistan Employees' Celebration (PKK), which Ankara considers terrorist organizations , should not reap the benefits of the scenario.
NATO member Turkey hosts some 3 million Syrian migrants and refugees, making it the biggest host of Syrians fleeing the civil conflict.
It additionally controls swaths of territory in northern Syria after a number of cross-border incursions towards the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which Ankara views as an extension of the PKK.
Shares of Turkish building and cement firms jumped on Monday, buoyed by hopes they’ll profit from reconstruction in Syria.
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