From Today’s Zaman: Syriacs returning to Turkey after 1980s migration to Europe

Syriac families who fled to Europe starting in the 1980s due to instability caused by terrorist activities in Turkey's East and Southeast have recently started returning to their homeland due to a decrease in terrorism in Turkey.

Syriacs have lived for about 5,000 years in the provinces of Mardin, Batman and Şırnak, and some migrated to various foreign countries because of the fighting between the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) and Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorists that broke out in the region in 1980. The other reason behind the migration was the unsolved murders of about 50 Syriac individuals that occurred between 1985 and 1995. As a result, 2,845 Syriac families migrated to various European countries due to a lack of safety in the region.


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