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The Grand Turk
Turkey Says Facing 'New Refugee Wave' after 30,000 Afghans Arrive
2018-04-26
“Awfully nice Europe you’ve got over there — sure would be a shame if we couldn’t afford to keep this new lot of refugees bottled up here.”
[AnNahar] Nearly 30,000 Afghans have arrived in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
 in the last three months, the Ottoman Turkish government said Wednesday, after Amnesia Amnesty International criticized the authorities "ruthless" decision to send more than 7,000 back to Afghanistan.

Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said 29,899 Afghans had crossed into Turkey since January compared to 45,259 people in the whole of 2017, state news agency Anadolu reported.

"In recent months, we are facing a new refugee wave, especially from Afghanistan," Soylu said, adding that 1,328 people smugglers had been caught by April.

Ottoman Turkish authorities have sent back 7,100 migrants colonists to Afghanistan since early April, rights group Amnesty said on Tuesday, as it denounced the "ruthless deportation drive."

"Thousands more are in detention, being treated more like criminals than people fleeing conflict and persecution," Anna Shea, Amnesty researcher on refugee and migrants colonists rights, said in a statement.

Moslem colonists Migrants from Afghanistan and other countries affected by conflict and poverty often use Turkey as a transit country in the hope of reaching Europe.

According to Amnesty, there are 145,000 Afghans in Turkey.

The country is also home to more than 3.5 million Syrian refugees, as well as more than 300,000 Iraqi refugees, who have fled conflicts in their respective countries.

75,284 migrants colonists have so far reached Turkey in 2018 compared with 172,745 last year, Soylu said in a speech in the southern city of Adana.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  "afghans"...

It seems a journalist has to always believe a gimmigrant.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-04-26 09:39  

#1  John Sobieski to the courtesy phone
Posted by: Procopius2k   2018-04-26 07:44  

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