'There are many challenges': Syrians in Turkey consider return after fall of Assad
43 minutes ago Share Save Orla Guerin Senior International Correspondent in Gaziantep, Turkey Share Save
BBC Aya Mustafa wants to return home but not yet
The pull of home can be strong – even when it is a place you can't remember. That is how it is for Ahmed, 18. He emerges from a mosque in the heart of Gaziantep in south-east Turkey - not far from the Syrian border - wearing a black T-shirt with "Syria" written on the front. His family fled his homeland when he was five years old, but he is planning to go back in a year or two at most. "I am impatient to get there," he tells me. "I am trying to save money first, because wages in Syria are low." Still, he insists the future will be better there. "Syria will be rebuilt and it will be like gold," he says.
If he goes back, he will be following in the footsteps of more than half a million Syrians wh
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