Bamf: The recognition rate of asylum seekers from Turkey should vary considerably

Asylum is a fundamental right that applies nationwide. However, according to a "world" report, the cases on which it depends strongly depend on the place of residence of the people. For Turkish asylum seekers, the recognition rate varies between different branches of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Bamf).

After the coup d'etat against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the summer of 2016, Federal reduce their recognition rate in 2017 still only 28.1 percent, wrote the "world", citing the statistics of the Bamf. In the outposts of North Rhine-Westphalia, the east-German outposts were much more numerous.

According to the "world", only 2.7% of Turkish asylum seekers enjoyed protection in Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt. In Chemnitz, Saxony, it would have been 2.2% and in Eisenhüttenstadt, Brandenburg, only 1.9% of the population.

Bamf reports case studies

According to the report, the office of North Rhine-Westphalia Mönchengladbach, 3, Essen 76.7 and Bonn even 82.9 percent. The Bamf justified this "world" by the fact that each asylum procedure always represents a case-by-case examination. In addition, it can also happen that at a certain time, a particularly high number of people seeking protection come from a certain region of a country of origin to Germany. and their asylum application mainly in the context of a redistribution in a federal state.

This could "change protection quotas accordingly, since the basis for making decisions about people from different regions of origin may be different".