More than 50,000 Syrians return home since Assad fall: Turkey

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home in the month since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Thursday.

“Over the course of a month, 52,622 Syrians went home,” he told journalists at the Cilvegozu border crossing in the southern province of Hatay.

The number jumped by more than 20,000 since the previous update on December 27, when he gave a figure of 30,663.

Of the overall number, 41,437 had gone back with family members...