A rising number of educated Turkish citizens who oppose the government are heading to Germany. Many are seeking asylum, but German authorities are less inclined to grant it.
Increasing numbers of educated Turkish citizens who oppose the government and harbor little hope for the future are heading to Germany. Many are seeking asylum, but German authorities are less inclined to grant it.
Inflation, poverty, and no freedom of expression: as the political and economic situation in Turkey worsens under Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasingly autocratic government, more and more Turks are fleeing to Germany. Elmas Topcu reports
Inflation, poverty, and no freedom of expression: As the political and economic situation in Turkey grows increasingly tense, more and more Turks are fleeing to Germany.
More rejected asylum seekers were sent back to flood-ridden Pakistan this week as German groups claimed that many migrants are unlawfully detained pending deportation.
On Roma Holocaust Memorial Day deportations of Roma from Germany continue
August 2 is the official day of remembrance of the Roma Holocaust. It commemorates the bestial murder of some 4,300 Roma and Sinti during the liquidation of the so-called “Gypsy Camp” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in August 1944. Away from the official events on this day, however, it becomes all too clear that even 77 years after this Nazi crime, the Roma cannot find a safe home in Germany. The callousness of the federal and state governments is expressed in Berlin, for example, where the Roma memorial in front of the Bundestag (parliament), which commemorates the 500,000 Sinti and Roma murdered under National Socialism (Nazism), is to fall victim to another new S-Bahn (urban transit) line less than ten years after its unveiling .
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Germany said its scheme to take in refugees from Greek islands ended on Thursday as the last 103 people arrived more than six months after a fire destroyed the Moria camp.
But Berlin is facing criticism for ending the scheme while many migrants are still living in a crowded camp in Greece which has been described as “Moria 2.0”.
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“Ending this process is an act of irresponsibility towards all those who are left behind on the islands without any prospects of protection or safety,” said Guenter Burkhardt, the executive director of pro-migration group Pro Asyl.
The group called for the programme to be extended to include more of the migrants stranded in Greece after fleeing Syria and Afghanistan.