One thousand Afghan refugees returned from Turkey within a week

According to the correspondent of Fars News Agency’s Afghanistan site, the General Directorate of Immigration of Turkey announced that 2,321 migrants were deported from this country this week.

According to the statistics of the Turkish Migration Agency, 1000 Afghan migrants were deported to their country this week.

In the statement of this immigration office, it is stated that at this time, about 2,269 people entered Turkey illegally, of which 824 are Afghans, 91 are Pakistanis, and 1,354 are nationals of other countries.

According to the report of this immigration office, Turkey still hosts 19,746 immigrants, the majority of which are Afghan and Pakistani immigrants.

In its report on 2022, the General Directorate of Migration of Turkey announced that it expelled about 124,441 immigrants from its country in 2022, which it called “illegal” immigrants.

According to this report, 68 thousand 290 Afghans, 12 thousand 511 Pakistanis, and the rest were from other countries whose names were not mentioned.

In this regard, the authorities of Agri province in eastern Turkey announced on Friday night that 227 illegal Afghan immigrants were returned to their country.

A Turkish official in the country’s immigration department said that these immigrants were first sent to Agri airport and from there by air to their country.

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