(8 Dec 2024)
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Cilvegozu Border Gate, Hatay, Turkey – 9 December 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Wide of Syrian migrants making peace sign and an Islamic symbol of god, waiting at Cilvegozu border gate to cross back into Syria
2. Mid of Syrian migrant making peace sign
3. Mid of Muhammed Zin, 28-year-old Syrian migrant, waiting at border gate to go back to Syria, and Seer Ali, 18-year-old Syrian migrant
4. Mid of Ali in front of Cilvegozu border gate
5. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Muhammed Zin, Syrian migrant:
"I came to Turkey. I escaped from Syria. The war started in Syria. We came to you. (Bashar) Assad was shooting us, killing us. I escaped from Syria in 2016. I came (here). I will return to Syria now. Thank god the war is over."
6. Mid of migrant making peace sign
7. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Muhammed Zin, Syrian migrant:
"But it is very difficult to enter Syria from here. We have been here since 11 o’clock in the morning. People are sleeping here. They open here at 8 o’clock. Look at the state of the people. Look at how they are sleeping."
8. Mid of migrants in blankets sleeping and waiting at barriers by border gate
9. Mid of migrants under coats and blankets
10. Mid of Zin and Ali waiting with their suitcases
11. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Seer Ali, Syrian migrant:
"I came from Damascus six years ago. I am 18 years old. I came here for work. My family has no one there. I am the only man. I work and send money to my family in Damascus. Now the war in Syria is over and we are returning."
12. Mid of Ali and migrant
13. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Seer Ali, Syrian migrant:
"We are very happy, very happy. Not just me, but everyone. All of us Syrians here are very happy. Everyone will return, no one will stay here. They will all go to their families. All of the Syrians here will go."
14. Mid of suitcases of migrants waiting to cross
15. Wide of migrant group warming by a fire
16. Mid of migrant sleeping
17. Various of Cilvegozu border gate
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Syrian migrants gathered at the Cilvegozu border gate in southern Turkey on early Monday, eagerly awaiting their chance to cross back into Syria after President Bashar Assad’s government was overthrown on Sunday.
Among the crowd was 28-year-old Muhammed Zin, who fled Damascus 10 years ago and had been living and working in Istanbul since then.
"I came to Turkey, I escaped from Syria. The war started in Syria, we came to you. Assad was shooting us, killing us. I escaped from Syria in 2016. I will return to Syria now. Thank God, the war is over," he said.
Seer Ali, 18, left Damascus six years ago to support his family.
Working in Gaziantep, Ali has been the sole provider for his mother and siblings back in Damascus.
"We are very happy, very happy. Not just me, but everyone, all of us Syrians here are very happy. Everyone will return, no one will stay here. They will all go to their families," Ali said, his excitement mirrored by others waiting at the gate.
Migrants draped in blankets and coats camped out by the barriers at the Cilvegozu gate, waiting for the gates to open. Some warmed themselves by makeshift fires as others rested on the cold ground.
AP video shot by Mucahit Ceylan
AP video produced by Robert Badendieck
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