The dilemma of Syrian refugees: Returning home vs. staying related to security at homeland

This thesis seeks to analyze the motives of the Syrian refugees to return, which correlates with security sector improvement in the northwest of Syria, in the areas controlled by Turkey. The research focuses on the priorities of the refugees to return, and in some parts, it highlights some of the Syrian returnees' experiences in the north of Syria. Then it moves into details to security sector deterioration reasons, then recommendations for improvement and development of this sector and the correlation with the political transition as seen by refugees and wished by them (conditions to return). The study states the push and pull factors of Syrian refugees to return an immense significance. There will be some highlights from migration experts' suggestions on the voluntary return of refugees. These push and pull factors – after stating some of them in the eyes and minds of Syrian refugees- the study will go deeper into security-related ones alone. In the end, the research answers the question "Can Syrian refugees go back home?" and if so, how and when and to where?