Turkey has deported 70 Kurds who tried to migrate to Europe through the country, the Kurdistan Branch of the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) said.
The head of the Kurdistan branch of IFRI, Ari Jalal, told NRT on Friday (August 25) that the 70 people were residents of Sulaimani who were detained at Turkey’s coasts.
Jalal added the deportees tried to migrate to the European countries through Turkey in the past month.
“There are women and children among those 70 people,” Jalal continued.
They were deported by buses to the Kurdistan Region through the Ibrahim Khalil border crossing, IFIR’s head in the region said.
Jalal previously said Kurds’ migration has widely resumed as the political and economic situation in the Kurdistan Region has become further complicated.
According to the federation’s statistics, 240,000 people from the Kurdistan Region and Iraq traveled to Turkey as tourists in the first six months of this year. Most of them have gone to Greek and Italian coasts, the statistics indicated.
Up to 300 people have died en route to Europe in the last three years, and 48 bodies of Iraqi and Kurdish people have also gone missing.
SOURCE: NRT TV
