Selim Sazak

It's a basic principle of international law called non-refoulement and I am quite sure Turkey is bound by it too. I think this is still up to date https://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/turkey2/Turk009-10.htm …

According to the 1951 Convention & the 1967 Protocol, Turkey maintains the geographical limitation: Turkey grants refugees of European origin the right to seek asylum. Non-European refugees are eligible only for temporary asylum seeker status but can not permanently settle.

"Regardless of any geographical limitation under the Refugee Convention, Turkey must still abide by the principle of non-refoulement (that no one may be returned to a country in which he may face persecution), which is binding in all cases"

"The non-refoulement obligation is one of the few articles in the Refugee convention to which reservations cannot be made" https://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/turkey2/Turk009-10.htm …

Non refoulment principle only works if there is a close and real threat against that person. We talk about people who can safely travel Syria for religious holiday and than come back to Turkey. And if a person safely travel to a country there is no real threat against them.

Those people constitute a very small minority of Syrians in Turkey though, no? The situation in Syria remains highly volatile also.