94% of Syrian refugees in Kurdistan Region have lost hope of return

ARK News: The vast majority of the Syrian refugees in Kurdistan Region of Iraq believe that they will not return to their country, even if the war ends and the conditions are settled because they have lost hope of living and returning to their home.

An official source at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that according to the statement made by Syrian refugees in their official statements to the United Nations, 94% of them do not intend to return to their home even if the situations are changed.

According to official statistics published by the UNHCR on 31.10.2018 that the number of Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Duhok, Erbil, Al-Sulaymaniyah) is 248748 refugee, if we count this percentage, 233,823 refugees do not intend to return, while there are 14,924 refugees who intend to return to their home.

The vast majority of the Syrian refugees in the Kurdistan Region are from Syria Kurds, from various certificates and specialties such as doctors, engineers, pharmacists, and teachers, in addition to capital funds.

According to ARK's follow up of the refugee situations that some of those do not prefer to return, especially the youth group, for fear of the compulsory recruitment of the Democratic Union Party, or from arrest and abduction as a result of their attitudes and views against PYD’s politics, in addition to the subject of education, after the PYD imposed its ideological curriculum in schools.

Thousands of people from Kurdistan Syria migrated and displaced, to ensure education for their children, the political and civil parties accuse the PYD of introducing ideology into educational curricula, in addition to the lack of official recognition of such curricula.

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