ANKARA, Turkey—German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she expects many of the refugees who have flooded into Germany from war-torn countries like Syria to eventually return home once the hostilities end.
Speaking Saturday to members of her Christian Democratic Party in the northeastern city of Neubrandenburg, Merkel said that many of the 1.1 million asylum seekers who entered Germany last year would return home, as was Germany’s experience with refugees from the Balkans did in the 1990s, the dpa news agency reported.
She says “we expect that if there’s peace again in Syria, if IS [the Islamic State] is defeated in Iraq, then they will return to their homelands with the knowledge they have gained here.”
