According to the woman, her son was arrested and transferred to a refugee deportation center in the city of Gaziantep, and the woman asked for help from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to release her son, as she has been living in Turkey for eight years and, according to her, she does not have any problems that require her deportation from country.
Turkey has recently witnessed a campaign led by right-wing groups once morest Syrian refugees in Turkey. After the economic situation worsened due to the global recession, and the exchange rate of the Turkish lira fell to unprecedented levels, these groups blamed the Syrian refugees.
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With the approaching date of the Turkish elections, the ruling “Justice and Development” party began to favor the right-wing opponents under the pressure of the Turkish street, and the Turkish government began to pursue a policy of forced mass deportation of Syrian refugee families.
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The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression published a statement in December 2021, in which it said that the Turkish authorities raided, at the beginning of December 2021, homes inhabited by Syrian refugee families in the “Kahraman Kazan” neighborhood in the Turkish capital, Ankara, at five o’clock in the morning. He explained that they were later taken to the “Uzili” deportation center in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, at the border with Syria.
The center considered that the recurrence of deportations in a number of Turkish states goes beyond individual violations or the arbitrariness of the security services, and indicates a collective deportation policy implemented by the Turkish government once morest Syrians, stressing that it “violates” its commitment to international law, including international humanitarian law and international human rights law. And its commitment to the principle of non-refoulement recognized by the United Nations, and Security Council Resolution 2254.