Khaberni - Syrians residing in Turkey topped the list of foreigners who married Turkish citizens during the past year 2025.
According to recent data from the Turkish Statistical Institute, Syrian husbands constituted 20.9 percent of the foreigners married to Turkish women during the past year.
Similarly, Syrian wives accounted for 13.8 percent of all foreign women married to Turkish husbands.
In the same context, data from the Statistical Institute showed that last year Turkey witnessed 552,237 weddings, while 193,793 couples were recorded as divorced.
Regarding the average age of marriage, it reached an average of 28.5 years for men and 26 years for women in the year 2025.
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians reside in Turkey, most of whom fled the war in their country, but large numbers of them returned to their country after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in December 2024.
Last week, Turkish Interior Minister Mustafa Chevitchi announced that 1,366,215 Syrians have voluntarily returned to their country to date, affirming that the returnees "have become ambassadors of our nation’s hearts."
According to the Turkish newspaper "Ajel", Chevitchi's statements were made during his participation in the "Meeting of Governors" program in the capital Ankara, where he addressed the governors of the 81 provinces, covering a range of issues related to security and public order, alongside the file of irregular migration and the return of the Syrians.
The minister, according to the newspaper, claimed that irregular migration is among the most significant security threats at the global level, noting that Turkey, due to its geographical location, lies on an active migration path between the east and the west and the north and the south, which requires – in his words – adopting a cautious and sustainable migration policy.
