More Kobanê people are turning back home since their leave after the beginning of intense ISIS attacks on 15 September 2014. As many as 175 thousand residents of the town have turned back home during the past 9 months.

The mainly Kurdish Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava, had a population of 250 thousand before the beginning of the civil war in Syria, which rose up to 450 thousand with the immigrants it allowed from Aleppo, Damascus, Humus, Deraa, Dêr a Zor, İdlib and Raqqa as the conflict got deeper in the following periods.

A large number of inhabitants were forced to migrate to Bakûrê (North) Kurdistan as they faced a threat of massacre due to the heavy attacks ISIS gangs launched with all their forces and heavy weaponry on 15 September last year.

Returns to the town in mass began soon after YPG/YPJ forces entirely liberated the town centre from ISIS gangs on 26 January 2013 after a historic resistance of 134 days. The obstacles created by the Turkish state and the massacre plans it organised together with the gangs could not hinder the return of the Kobanê people back to their lands.

According to the figures by Kobanê Council of Social Affairs, as many as 175 thousand people have turned back home during the past 9 months. The returnees have settled in the areas cleared of mines that had been laid by the gangs during the course of the battle. Daily life in these areas is going on without any threats at the moment.

Around 3500 Kobanê people are turning back to their town on weekly basis through the Mürşitpınar border gate between North and West Kurdistan where passage is allowed only two days a week, Mondays and Thursdays.