Over 240,000+ Afghan refugees deported from Turkey (as well as Iran and Pakistan)

[Foinikas]

Did you hear me say that? Fact remains that Turks are overwhelmingly conservative and that is also a good thing

Well the way you said it sounded like you meant the patriotic ones are only the conservative pro-Erdogan people.

 

[Dalit]

Well the way you said it sounded like you meant the patriotic ones are only the conservative pro-Erdogan people.

Yes. Conservative Turks obviously support Erdogan overwhelmingly. Erdogan has been in power for such a long time due to his conservative base spread across Turkey.

 

[Foinikas]

Erdogan has been in power for such a long time due to his conservative base spread across Turkey.

I suspect it wasn't just that,but also a bit of meddling in the results,maybe because he took care of opponents,shut down newspapers,kicked some channel owners etc. Of course a big part of the population is votes for him,that's for sure. There's no doubt millions like him.

 

[Solidify]

Feeling of rejection on Afghans must be chaos + suicidal to end up back in Stone Age times.

 

[LegionnairE]

Turkey is not a secular state. Some parts of Turkey are secular. The vast majority of Turks are patriotic, fiercely Islamic and pro-Erdogan.

I'm guessing you're not very good with the English language. Secularism has nothing to do with patriotism and state and people are seperate things.

Is Turkey run by sharia? No. Never was, never will be. It's a secular state. I guess you need to work on these basic concepts.

 

[HttpError]

No Loy Turkey? Lol, oh great nations will boot this Afghan Menace out if they try to violate local laws but unlike in Pakistan we make them our brothers and get bitten by them each time.

 

[asena_great]

Turkey, Iran and Pakistan are all islamic states

turkey is a secular country not an Islamic one

 

[asena_great]

Turkey is not a secular state. Some parts of Turkey are secular. The vast majority of Turks are patriotic, fiercely Islamic and pro-Erdogan.

be silent with your Islamist nonsense even the conservatives don't want you here. we have no shortage of Pakistani child kidnaper child r@pist like ali rana. we dont want you even as tourist

 

[-blitzkrieg-]

The Dehli Sultanate was a Pashtun empire based in India & Pakistan

Delhi sultanate was a series of different dynasties. lodi dynasty was pashtun , sayed dynasty was khokar punjabi and the rest three mamluk, khalaji and tughlaq preceeding them were turkic.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

Over 240,000 Afghan refugees deported from Iran and Turkey

Neither Tehran nor Ankara recognise the Taliban government - but that hasn't stopped them from turning away Afghans fleeing its rule

www.middleeasteye.net

Neither Tehran nor Ankara recognise the Taliban government - but that hasn't stopped them from turning away Afghans fleeing its rule.

Turkey has been building a wall on its eastern border with Iran since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan (Reuters)

By Ali M Latifi in Kabul
Published date: 15 November 2022 10:56 UTC | Last update: 1 month 4 days ago

More than 240,000 Afghan refugees have been deported from Iran and Turkey since the start of the year, according to Turkish and Afghan officials.

Authorities in Afghanistan’s southwestern province of Nimroz, which shares borders with both Iran and Pakistan, told local media that nearly 190,000 Afghans have been deported by Tehran in the last six months alone.

Afghans deported from Iran are sent by road back to either Nimroz, a largely desert province that has become one of the nation’s most prominent smuggling hubs, or Herat, a commercial and cultural centre.

Though Turkish police have been accused of trying to push Afghans back towards the Iranian border, most of their deportations take place via commercial and charter flights on private and government-run Afghan airlines.

According to the Turkish interior ministry’s migration management office, at least 92,583 undocumented Afghans have entered the country as of last month

Of those, 57,174 were sent back to Taliban-run Afghanistan on both chartered and scheduled flights. The vast majority - 41,185 - were sent back on 217 chartered flights. Turkish officials say that is an increase of 212 percent from the year prior.

Observers and rights workers note that both Tehran and Ankara, along with Islamabad, continue to deport Afghans back to a country facing a mounting humanitarian crisis, despite the fact that none of them recognise the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate as the official government of Afghanistan.

However, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan are among three of the nations that have continued to maintain ties and trade with Taliban-run Afghanistan. One Afghan aid worker, who travels between Kabul and Istanbul several times a year, said the deportations may be one reason why Ankara maintains a diplomatic presence in Kabul.

“Looking at these statistics, it makes sense why the Turks are so adamant about their continued presence in Afghanistan,” said the aid worker, who asked not to be named given her ties to both countries.

Refugee rights workers inside Turkey agree.

Ali Hekmat, who has been aiding Afghan refugees in Turkey for more than a decade, says Ankara fails to recognise the danger it is putting Afghans in when sending them back to a Taliban-run state.

“Many of the Afghans who come to Turkey are former soldiers or officials from the former government, and returning them to Afghanistan is a huge risk both in terms of their human rights and personal security,” Hekmat told Middle East Eye.

Shortly after returning to power in August 2021, the Taliban promised a general amnesty for all former officials and security forces of the western-backed Islamic Republic.

However, since then, everyone from The New York Times to The Washington Post to Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and the Committee to Protect Journalists have documented hundreds of allegations of abuses against Afghan journalists, former security forces, female protesters and ethnic minorities by Taliban forces across the country.

Hekmat says the deportations are not only done by plane. He says he has heard repeated reports of Afghans being driven back from the borderlands of eastern Turkey.

What disturbs Hekmat the most is that the Turkish authorities do not hide the fact that they are deporting Afghans back to a Taliban-run Afghanistan that is facing an economic downturn and a humanitarian crisis, and how systematic it all is.

“The Turkish government itself issues weekly and monthly reports saying they pushed refugees back across the border. It’s very organised and systematic. They get their fingerprints taken, their biometric data is stored and then they’re sent right back across the border,” he said.

Hekmat and other sources speaking to MEE said once Afghans are pushed back from the Turkish border, they are then likely to be deported from Iran, showing that the practices of Ankara and Tehran feed into the overall statistics for deportations from both countries, even though both nations claim not to see the Taliban as Afghanistan’s rightful government.
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Note: The article is just being posted word-for-word, I don't entirely agree with its views.

Afghans also use Pakistani passports as well.

 

[Imran Khan]

good deport all of them its been 50 years now we are sick of them .

 

[Sayfullah]

Might be rn - but still seeing them all around.

Here in Canada many Afghans who came to Canada in early 2000s or before all came on fake Pakistani passports and documents. The area I use to live in was filled with afghans and they would be here on fake Pakistani documents and even go back to Afghanistan via Pakistan. Their kids would know how to speak and understand Urdu. But many of them would be the most anti Pakistan people I’ve ever met. Their existence in Canada was due to Pakistan but they would come here and try to act superior to Pakistanis. Idk if it’s the same in USA but here many of the earlier afghan immigrants and refugees were here solely because they had access to fake Pakistani documents on which they came Canada. Yet they would still hate Pakistanis and Pakistan.

Afghans also use Pakistani passports as well.

Yes I personally know many afghan families here in Canada who got here on fake Pakistani passports.

 

[MastanKhan]

they don't even fight for their own country you expect us to accept frakin useless freeloaders?

Let them keep their own.

Hi,

But they are great sales people---.

They have already made that pitch to the american politicians that they are a great resource to the US---

 

[Muhammad Saftain Anjum]

Afghans spread very fast
They can really outnumber the local population in small European countries in some decades.
May be Turkey and Iran can also feel threatened

 

[TheSolution]

Afghans spread very fast
They can really outnumber the local population in small European countries in some decades.
May be Turkey and Iran can also feel threatened

I don't know about other countries but Pakistan should immediately crack down on them and deport them.

Only Pakistan is retarded enough to feed venemous snakes.

We need to build a similar wall on our Western border with more secure check posts too.