Turkish security forces in the western province of Kırıkkale arrested 114 irregular immigrants during the first week of December.

This came during patrols carried out by the Gendarmerie Command teams in the aforementioned state during the period from December 1 to 7.

The irregular migrants were taken to the deportation center in the Pehlivanköy district of Kırıkkale Province.

In conjunction with the arrest of migrants, 7 people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in migrant smuggling operations.

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The authorities in Muğla state, western Turkey, arrested 2,103 irregular immigrants within 15 days.

The state reported that the security, gendarmerie and coast guard teams carried out simultaneous operations in Muğla from 16 to 31 October last year as part of combating irregular migration.

It explained in a statement on Thursday that the operations resulted in the arrest of 2,103 irregular immigrants who were handed over to the state Immigration Directorate.

The operations also resulted in the arrest of 42 people suspected of smuggling migrants.

The judicial authorities decided to arrest 28 of the 42 suspects and release the rest and place them under judicial supervision.

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Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced the deportation of 42,875 irregular immigrants between June 1 and September 22 of this year.

This came in response to journalists’ questions following a Turkish government meeting in the presidential complex in the capital, Ankara.

He pointed out that 97,363 irregular immigrants were arrested since he assumed his duties in early June until September 22.

He pointed out that 105,488 foreigners left the country whose visas and residency expired.

He stated that the previous numbers do not include cross-border infiltration attempts by the Ministry of Defense, which numbered 70,796.

Regarding the countries from which most irregular migrants come, the minister stated that they are coming across the Iranian border from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan.

In this context, Yerlikaya reported that the Ministry of Interior will begin activating the application of mobile immigration offices throughout Turkey, starting next November 1.

He touched on the importance of the application by saying: “We will check people’s identities everywhere, including football matches. However, if we take a tourist or a foreigner who has a residence permit and does not have an identity card or a passport, we will not send him to the deportation centers. We succeeded in that through the application.” The experimental trial, which lasted 9 weeks in Istanbul.

He continued: “We need to move keeping in mind the zero error, because we are a tourist country.”

Regarding the workers in the mobile immigration offices, Yerlikaya said: “Our immigration experts and translators work at the center, who will provide communication with foreigners.”

In another context, Yerlikaya revealed a visit by Bulgarian Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov to Turkey on October 10.

He pointed to mutual cooperation between Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece to combat irregular migration by land and sea.

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A Turkish court decided to imprison eight people suspected of carrying out provocative acts and incitement on social media platforms against refugees and irregular migrants.

A statement issued by the Ankara Police on Saturday said that the Security Branch Directorate, the Anti-Cybercrime Department, and the Intelligence Department began joint investigations against accounts that engage in provocations and incitement to hatred on social media sites.

The statement added that the security teams identified 27 accounts that shared posts urging mutual hatred on social media, including opposing refugees and immigrants and inciting hostility towards the Turks in front of public opinion.

The Turkish Public Prosecution opened an investigation against the suspects on charges of “inciting the people to hatred and hostility” and “spreading misleading information publicly.”

The statement indicated that the Public Prosecution interrogated the 27 suspects and decided to refer 23 of them to justice and released four.

In turn, the court decided to imprison eight of the detainees and release 15 of them on the condition that they be banned from traveling and placed under judicial supervision.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed that his country had intensified measures against human smugglers and prevented the entry of hundreds of thousands of irregular migrants.

This came during the graduation ceremony of the Turkish Gendarmerie Academy and Coast Guard officers in the capital, Ankara.

Erdogan said, “We have intensified the measures taken against people smugglers inside the country and on the border line.”

He continued, “Since the beginning of this year, we have prevented 143,000 irregular migrants from entering Turkey.”

He noted that while all kinds of measures are being taken against irregular immigration, Turkey welcomes its foreign guests who contribute to the Turkish economy.

“We cannot allow racism and xenophobia, which has no place in our history, culture and beliefs, to spread in our society,” he stressed.

He added that Turkey will not allow a few ignorant people to tarnish the clean record of Turkey, which has been a refuge for the oppressed and oppressed for centuries.

On the fight against terrorism, the Turkish president stressed that there is no way for terrorists to do anything but surrender to Turkish justice or face the iron fist of the Turkish state.

He pointed out that participation in terrorist organizations has decreased to its lowest levels, pointing out that 45 people fled from the separatist terrorist organization recently and returned to their families.

In addition, 32 terrorists surrendered to the Turkish security forces through persuasion during the last two and a half months.

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The Presidency of the Turkish Immigration Department revealed that the total number of immigrants present throughout the country has reached 4,893,753 people to date.

In a statement on Sunday, it added that the percentage of immigrants in 1,169 neighborhoods across Turkey has so far exceeded 20 percent of the total number of Turkish residents in those neighborhoods.

The statement stated that in order to reduce the concentration of residents there, the door to register new foreigners in those neighborhoods was closed.

It confirmed that 54 of these neighborhoods are in Istanbul.

The Immigration Department indicated that it updated the numbers and statistics related to foreigners residing in the country on a weekly basis through its website “goc.gov.tr”.

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The Turkish Coast Guard has rescued 5,153 irregular migrants in the Aegean Sea since the beginning of 2023.

The Coast Guard Command stated that its teams rescued 5,153 irregular migrants in the Aegean Sea from January 1 to March 31.

And it explained in a statement on Saturday that the migrants were forced by the Greek side to go to Turkish territorial waters in the Aegean Sea.

Turkish forces also seized 2,232 immigrants while they were trying to sneak out of the country illegally.

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On Saturday, Turkey sent 139 irregular immigrants with Afghan nationality to their country via an air flight.

The plane took off from Esenboga Airport in Ankara, heading to Afghanistan.

In press statements, the head of the Turkish Immigration Department, Savaş Onlu, said that this is the ninth charter flight they have organized since the beginning of this year to deport irregular migrants.

He explained that 8,571 irregular immigrants (of different nationalities) have been deported since the beginning of the year, indicating that the figure does not include the last batch.

In 2022, 124,441 irregular migrants were deported via scheduled flights and 237 charter flights.

Among them were 235 charter flights to Afghanistan and two charter flights to Pakistan.

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On Tuesday, Turkish security forces seized 83 irregular migrants in the southern state of Sanliurfa, in the south of the country.

Gendarmerie forces arrested immigrants in the center of the state and in the districts of Ayyubid, Aqsha Qala, Biragik and Harran.

Two suspects were arrested on charges of human smuggling and referred to the judicial authorities.

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The total number of immigrants around the world has reached 281 million, which constitutes 3.6 percent of the world’s population, according to the statistics of the International Organization for Migration.

The United Nations designated the date of December 18 to celebrate the “International Migrants Day”, which includes a number of different activities.

According to statistics from the Organization for Migration on Saturday, the number of immigrants around the world reached 281 million immigrants by 2020, an increase of more than three times over the 1970 statistic, which recorded 84 million immigrants.

The number of male immigrants is about 146 million and females 135 million.

The data also indicates that the number of internally displaced persons far exceeds the number of immigrants abroad.

The number of immigrants in the continents of Europe and Asia constitutes 61 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world, as their number reached about 87 million in Europe and 86 million in Asia.

North America comes after Europe and Asia in hosting immigrants, hosting 20.9 percent of immigrants, followed by Africa with 9 percent, then Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania.

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