Human Rights Watch in Turkey said that, Turkey deported 9,000 Afghan refugees to Afghanistan since the beginning of 2023.
Publish dateTuesday 25 April 2023 - 11:46
Story Code : 268921
Afghan Voice Agency(AVA)_Monitoring, According to Ali Hekmat, the head of the Association for the Support of Afghan Refugees in Turkey, the country has expelled 29,000 refugees between January 1 and the first week of April, with which 8,780 Afghan and 1,581 Pakistani nationals making up the majority of those deported.
Deporting refugees from Türkiye has accelerated, mainly Afghan refugees, on the eve of the country’s presidential elections.
More than 18,000 refugees have been detained on Turkey’s border and are ready to be deported, of which over 5,000 are Afghan nationals.
According to a report, Turkey deports up to a thousand Afghan refugees to Afghanistan every week.
Organisations that promote asylum seekers’ rights assert that President Erdogan is trying to get voters’ attention by making the fight against illegal immigration the main topic of his election campaign.
Deporting refugees from Türkiye has accelerated, mainly Afghan refugees, on the eve of the country’s presidential elections.
More than 18,000 refugees have been detained on Turkey’s border and are ready to be deported, of which over 5,000 are Afghan nationals.
According to a report, Turkey deports up to a thousand Afghan refugees to Afghanistan every week.
Organisations that promote asylum seekers’ rights assert that President Erdogan is trying to get voters’ attention by making the fight against illegal immigration the main topic of his election campaign.
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