SANLIURFA, Turkey
Around 1,500 Syrian Kurdish refugees, mostly women and children, returned from Turkey to northern Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, also known as Kobani, on Wednesday.
The refugees crossed the border from Mursitpinar border gate, located in the southern Turkish district of Suruc, after officials checked their identity papers. A registration system for the refugees was made by Turkey's emergency body, AFAD.
The refugees are allowed to cross back into northern Syria at least three days every week.
Some 200,000 Kobani residents rapidly fled to Turkey's neighboring town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province in one week in early October.
Syrian Kurds regained Kobani – close to Turkey’s southern border – in late January after months of fierce fighting which pushed out almost all of the area’s population.
