Turkey plans to deport nearly 600 illegal Afghan refugees who have fled ongoing insecurity and economic crisis in their war-torn country.
Turkish security forces handed over the Afghan refugees, who had crossed into eastern Turkey through Iran due to "ongoing terrorist activities and economic troubles" in Afghanistan, to provincial immigration authorities, Turkey’s Interior Ministry announced yesterday, PressTV reports.
Deportation procedures are now completed for 591 refugees in the eastern province of Erzurum and charter flights to Kabul would be arranged on Saturday and Sunday to send them back, the ministry said in its statement.
"Following the completion of deportation procedures for illegal migrants in our other provinces, deportations will speed up and continue in the coming days," the statement noted.
