Record Number of Afghans Reaching Turkey Without Papers

Officials have been quoted as saying as many as 500 undocumented Afghan migrants try to enter Turkey every day.

Nearly 20,000 undocumented Afghan migrants have arrived in Turkey in the past week three months, an unprecedented number according to the latest figures from the Turkish General Directorate of Security, the Hürriyet Daily News reported.

The report said that a total of 17,847 undocumented Afghan migrants have been captured by security forces from the beginning of 2018 until March 29.

The same period has seen 9,426 Syrian migrants, 5,311 Pakistani migrants and 4,270 Iraqi migrants.

Nearly 500 undocumented Afghan migrants try to enter Turkey per day, which has prompted security forces to examine the case in detail, Hürriyet Daily News reported.

As part of the investigation, the Directorate of Anti-Human Trafficking has been established in the eastern province of Erzurum, a hotspot used by migrants to go to Istanbul.

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Focus on Plight of Returnees from Pakistan

Afghan migrants who in recent months flocked to Afghanistan from Pakistan refugee camps are now struggling to survive in the country.

In recent months thousands of refugees returned to their home after years in Pakistan. Hundreds of these refugees are now settled in camps in Khairkahil village of Laghman province and they face food shortages, lack of health services, a scarcity of clean drinking water and other basic necessities.

Those who have returned from Pakistan have said that Pakistan’s military has forced them to return home.

“We have been living here in this camp for a month, our children are suffering from illnesses, there is no hospital here so that we can take them for treatment,” said a refugee Haji Gul.

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