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 [KavkazUzel] Two minor children of Azerbaijani citizens killed in Syria were handed over to relatives. The children lived in an orphanage in Turkey for a year and a half, said a representative of the Turkish Humanitarian Aid Fund.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on September 10, the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry reported that 12 Azerbaijani citizens were repatriated from Syria , including children left without parents. All of them were held in the Amerna camp in the Syrian city of Jerablus. On 28 May, two adults and nine children were also repatriated from the Jarabulus refugee camp.
The juvenile brother and sister, who were placed in an orphanage in Turkey after their parents were killed in Syria, were handed over to their relatives, haqqin.az reports today.
An 11-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl lived in an orphanage for a year and a half, before which they were noticed by employees of the Turkish Humanitarian Aid Fund during the distribution of aid in the Jerablus region.
"These children were placed in our orphanage. We contacted officials in Azerbaijan on this issue. The necessary information was provided regarding the children and an investigation was launched. As a result, we managed to contact the uncles and aunts of the children," Mehmet Altintash, an employee of the foundation, quoted the agency as saying. .
The Azerbaijani authorities are repatriating from Iraq and Syria children and women from the families of people who once went to fight in these countries as part of various armed formations, Tofig Turkel, a columnist for the Turan agency, said earlier. "After the return of children without parents, they are usually given to close relatives - on the paternal or maternal side. Usually such children are taken away by uncles, aunts or grandparents. If there are none, then the children are given to orphanages," he said.
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