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Returns from Greece to Turkey - 31 January 2020

Countries
Türkiye
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UNHCR
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Overview

The majority of those returned to Turkey are Pakistani nationals (36 percent of total). Syrians constitute 18 percent of the total number of those returned, and are followed by Algerians, Afghans and Iraqis.

In total, 373 Syrians have been returned to Turkey to date. 43 of them have been returned on the basis that their asylum claims were found inadmissible at 2nd instance.

Of all those returned, 44 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