Turkish Asylum Applications To Germany 'Double' In 2016
By Josh Lowe On 8/5/16 at 7:49 AM
Almost as many Turkish people applied for asylum in Germany in the first half of 2016 as in the whole of 2015.
Some 1,719 people from Turkey submitted requests in Germany up to the end of June this year, only slightly fewer than the 1,767 who did so in the 12 months of 2015, Tagsspiegel reported Friday.
Of this year’s applicants, almost all—1,510 people—were members of Turkey’s Kurdish minority.
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