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Greece: Returns from Greece to Turkey - 28 February 2019

Greece Returns from Greece to Turkey   February
Greece: Returns from Greece to Turkey - 28 February 2019

2019-03-04 00:00:00 - Source: Relief Web

Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Country: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Greece, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, World

Overview

The majority of those returned to Turkey are Pakistani nationals (38 percent of total). Syrians constitute 19 percent of the total number of those returned, and are followed by Algerians, Afghans and Bangladeshis.

In total, 341 Syrians have been returned to Turkey to date. 38 of them have been returned on the basis that their asylum claims were found inadmissible at 2nd instance.

Of all those returned, 45 percent did not express a will to apply for asylum or withdrew their will to apply for asylum or withdrew their asylum claims in Greece.

Return trend – February 2018 to February 2019





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