16 Azerbaijani citizens repatriated from Syria

Baku/04.08.23/Turan: Sixteen Azerbaijani citizens were repatriated from Syria on August 3. Three women and 13 children who were held in the Amerna camp in the city of Jerablus were brought to Baku in transit through Turkey, the press service of the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported.

The Government of Azerbaijan undertakes to reintegrate and rehabilitate these persons.

According to official data, 436 Azerbaijani citizens, including 410 children and 35 women, have been repatriated to Azerbaijan from Iraq and Syria to date.

They ended up in these countries as family members of members of illegal armed groups.

In 2018, at a meeting with a delegation of the International Organization for Migration, representatives of Azerbaijan stated that 1,477 Azerbaijani citizens (1,136 men and 341 women) went to Syria and Iran to participate in terrorist organizations, 903 of them (749 men and 154 women) were killed or missing.

According to media reports, there are still a lot of Azerbaijani citizens in prisons and camps in Syria and Iraq.

In March this year, 120 Azerbaijani women held in a Baghdad prison distributed an audio message demanding their return to their homeland. -06B-