Turkey releases 50+ Iraqi immigrants
Shafaq News / The representative of the Summit Foundation (Lutka) in Turkey, Korda yaşar, announced on Monday that around 50-60 people who were detained in Istanbul camps for lack of legal documents were released after the intervention of the foundation. Most of those were from Duhok and Zakho, while the rest were from Erbil, Al-Sulaymaniyah and other Iraqi cities.
She added that most detainees are without legal documents beside the lack of roads, buses and airlines that facilitate their return.
The representative indicated that prisons are now empty and no one is imprisoned in the Edirne region, adding that people who do not carry legal documents in Istanbul and go by bus to the border are detained immediately and returned to the camps because the security forces believe that they entered Istanbul illegally.
She indicated that after contacting the representative of Lutka Foundation, the Foundation delivers their passports to the authorities to be released afterwards, indicating that 50 people were released in this way so far.
10 to 12 families, 10 other people, totaling 43 people, are currently detained for their passports have not arrived yet.
She concluded that one Arab man returned to Baghdad, pointing out that all the freed immigrants do not want to return to Kurdistan region but rather reach Europe in any way.
