More than 25,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the Turkish border and returned to their country over the past fortnight, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Tuesday.
A previous figure released by the Turkish authorities showed 7,621 returns from Turkey between 9 and 13 December, the four days following the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
Turkey, which shares a border of more than 900 km with Syria, is still home to some 2.92 million Syrians who fled the war that ravaged their country from 2011 onwards, Mr Yerlikaya told the state news agency Anadolu.
More than 500,000 of them live in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, he added.
The Turkish Interior Minister said that migration management offices would be set up in the Turkish embassy in Damascus and the Turkish consulate in Aleppo to facilitate the process for refugees resettling in Syria.
Faced with strong anti-Syrian sentiment among the population, the Turkish authorities are hoping that large numbers of refugees will return to Syria.
