An opinion poll conducted by the Syrian Institute for Studies and Research of Public Opinion showed that the majority of Syrian refugees do not wish to return home for security reasons.

A total of 504 refugees from Turkey, Germany and Lebanon participated in the poll, which was in the form of a questionnaire with multiple questions. More than 88% of the participants do not want to return, and 89.7% consider the return unsafe.

85.1% of the respondents believe that Russia would not succeed in repatriation of refugees without a political transition that would guarantee a real change in the current regime, while 50.3% believe that Moscow would fail to convince the countries of asylum to deport them.

The reserch center confirmed that the security concerns peak any fears those make refugees not approving to return home back and the impact of the difficult economic conditions of the Syrians in some countries of asylum, especially Lebanon, was very limited in pushing for return, and it stressed that a just political solution is the basis of a solution of the Syrian refugees' problem.

It should be noted that the American researcher Justin Roy conducted a study on the situation of the Syrian refugees, in which he stressed that Syria is not safe for the return of refugees despite the Russian campaign that promotes the opposite, and called on the international community to address these calls and prevent any return to them at an early date, it must be accompanied by a political transition that guarantees their rights and property that the regime is working on confiscating.