MALATYA – An unemployed Syrian refugee who left Aleppo with his family to Malatya has shown an exemplary behavior after returning gold bracelets he found in old clothes donated by a Turkish family.

“We came to flee the war and we do not need them,” Abbas Taha told IHA news agency.

“We had everything in Syria, including gold, and we left all our belongings to flee to Turkey.”

The story began when the family of Ahmet Eserçelik, who passed away at the age of 79, donated his belongings to Syrian family living in Gündüzbey neighborhood.

Coming to Malatya three years ago, Taha saw 6 gold bracelets in the clothes.

Though being unemployed family man who lives in a rented home, Taha decided to return the gold to its owners, calling a journalist and a writer to help him reach the family.

Ozbey, a member of Eserçelik family said they were touched by the refugee’s behavior.

He added that the family will sell the golden bracelets and offer their money to the Syrian family.

More than 211,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict between the Assad regime and opposition forces began in early 2011, according to UN figures.

Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have taken in more than three million Syrians since the conflict began in 2011, and the refugee crisis has become the worst since World War II.

The number of children displaced inside Syria has risen to nearly 3 million from 920,000 a year ago.

Meanwhile, UNICEF said the number of child refugees has grown to 1.2 million from 260,000 since last year – 425,000 of them under 5 years old.