Germany is accepting few asylum-seekers from Turkey despite
a near doubling of applications so far this year compared to a year earlier,
"Die Welt" reported.
A total of 3,793 Turkish citizens applied for asylum in
Germany from the beginning of the year until the end of September, with 85
percent of asylum-seekers identifying as ethnic Kurds, the newspaper reported,
citing the German Interior Ministry and Federal Office for Migration and
Refugees.
But only 6.8 percent of asylum applications were accepted,
despite a raging Turkish-Kurdish conflict and widening crackdown in the
country, compared with an acceptance rate of 14.6 percent the previous year.
Since the failed July coup bid, asylum applications by
Turkish citizens have also been on the rise. In July, there were 275
applications, 375 in August and another 446 in September.
No comments:
Post a Comment