proposed establishment of an offshore asylum center in Turkey as a third country for Afghan asylum seeker. The reports sparked a new debate over Turkey's categorical refusal to accept more refugees after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan.
“Reports in the British press about plans to set up an asylum center for Afghan asylum seekers in Turkey are untrue,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a written statement dated 22 August. “No official requests have been received.” If such a request exists, we will not accept it anyway, “Turkey said in a document
reception of refugees. Turkey already hosts over 4 million Syrian refugees, with Afghans being the second largest refugee community in the country.
According to official figures, 116,000 Afghan asylum seekers and 980 Afghan refugees lived in Turkey at the end of 2020 before the US appearances began. Controversy has been raised by British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace's Mail On Sunday, which states: “A number of 'processing centers' will be set up in Afghanistan's neighboring countries for refugees who flee. If they can prove their right to come to the UK, they will be sent to the UK by plane. “
Turkey has installed new fortifications on its eastern border with Iran using high-tech walls to improve the security of its border from new flows of Afghan migrants, the release says.
On Sunday 22 August, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told European Council President Charles Michel that Turkey could not take European responsibility for Afghan refugees.
The United Kingdom recently agreed to accept 20,000 Afghan refugees, of whom 5,000 will arrive in their first year.
“There are serious problems with the integration capacity of society, both due to the increase in the number of migrants and refugees in a relatively short period of time and the lack of a general strategy for integrating migrants and economic and social problems, “Said Sigdem Nas, Secretary General of the Turkish Economic Development Fund. adopt a humanitarian open door approach. “Turkey should work with international organizations, NATO and EU partners to organize the urgent needs of refugees coming to Turkey and facilitate their resettlement in developed countries,” the statement said.