Protection Minister Hulusi Akar on Sunday rejected latest reviews on an upsurge in migrant flows into Türkiye.
“Some feedback and political remarks level to pictures and movies taken in different international locations and at completely different occasions. These are completely false, not proper,” Akar stated throughout iftar, a dinner to mark the breaking of the every day quick, with quake victims in southern Hatay province’s Kırıkhan district.
The minister underlined that Turkish troopers shield the nation’s borders whereas utilizing the most recent expertise to stop trespassing. He stated claims {that a} migrant movement was going down towards Türkiye after the latest devastating earthquakes have been investigated and located not reliable.
Akar added that these points shouldn’t be used for political motives.
His feedback got here after Republican Individuals’s Occasion (CHP) Chairperson Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Sunday claimed. Afghan migrants have been crossing Turkish borders.
“There may be information that Afghan fugitives are flowing into our nation. I name on our troopers. This homeland is our homeland, and the border is our honor. Do your obligation on the border, don’t hearken to anybody,” Kılıçdaroğlu wrote on Twitter.
In the meantime, Akar just lately introduced that round 60,000 Syrians residing in Türkiye are returning to their dwelling nation as a consequence of dropping their properties and kinfolk.
On Feb. 6, magnitude 7.7 and seven.6 quakes struck 11 Turkish provinces, specifically Adana, Adıyaman, Diyarbakır, Elazığ, Hatay, Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Kilis, Malatya, Osmaniye and Şanlıurfa. The catastrophe claimed the lives of over 50,000 folks.
Over 13.5 million folks in Türkiye have been affected by the quakes and lots of others in northern Syria.
Regardless of the federal government’s welcoming coverage towards Syrians, which can also be supported by the vast majority of the general public, the Good Occasion (IP) and its ally CHP have been propagating anti-refugee rhetoric in Türkiye by focusing on Syrians and different foreigners.
The refugee challenge has taken middle stage in Turkish politics, particularly after the statements of Kılıçdaroğlu, who stated in a July 16 video they might say goodbye to the “Syrian visitors” and would ship them dwelling inside two years.
Because the begin of the Syrian disaster in 2011, Ankara has been on the forefront of serving to Syrian refugees. Consequently, the nation is dwelling to greater than 3.5 million refugees from Syria, the most important Syrian refugee group on this planet. Because it grapples with the inflow of displaced, the nation strives to supply exemplary care to the refugees, protecting all their wants with a humanitarian expenditure of greater than $30 billion (TL 398.13 billion).
Afghans are believed to be the second-largest refugee group within the nation after Syrians.
