When Jihan Hamad Al-Khalaf and her extended family decided to leave Turkiye and return to Syria, there was little debate among them. Five of the seven related families had been away since 2013, while the other two left in 2018. Some of their children had only faint memories of Syria, while others had never seen it. Yet after the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime in December 2024, Al-Khalaf said their decision was “immediate and collective.” “Conditions and pressures in Turkiye helped accelerate the
