Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Monday that about 60,<> Syrians had voluntarily returned home after the quake.
This came in an interview with Anatolia on the sidelines of a tour he is conducting with Turkish army commanders in the areas affected by the earthquake in the southeast of the country.
The Turkish defense minister stressed that his country's border with Syria is controlled, and that there is no illegal movement.
A devastating earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria at dawn on February 7, with a magnitude of 7.7 on the Richter scale, followed by another hours later with a magnitude of 6.50 and then thousands of aftershocks, killing more than 6,<> people in Turkey and <>,<> in Syria, according to the latest official report.
The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey is estimated at about 3 million and 500 thousand people, and these refugees live in dozens of Turkish cities, where the Turkish government has for years dismantled camps and transferred refugees into cities.
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Akar strongly condemned the attack on the Koran and the Turkish flag in Denmark, calling the attack "a hate crime, disgusting and unacceptable."
Last Friday, an extremist group burned the Turkish flag and the Koran in front of the Ankara embassy in the Danish capital Copenhagen, and live-streamed the attack on its Facebook account.