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Frode Forfang, director of the Norwegian Immigration Directorate (UDI), said that many of these claimants are subject to political persecution at home due to connection with the Muslim religious Fethullah Gulen.
The number of Turkish asylum seekers arriving in Norway has increased dramatically in recent weeks, officials from the Scandinavian country reported on Thursday
The processing of applications takes a long time as Oslo has to consider how similar cases are treated by other countries,
Frode Forfang, director of the Norwegian Immigration Directorate (UDI), said that many of these plaintiffs complained of being persecuted because of 39, a link with the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen
in exile in the United States and the Turkish rulers accuse him of a coup d'état in 2016.
L'UDI reported that 245 Turkish citizens have been invited to protect this year so far, 142 of them arrived in the country in June. A total of 164 asylum seekers arrived in Norway for the entire year 2017.
The Directorate did not indicate how the June increase had been explained
Forfang added that "the majority" of these asylum seekers had already obtained asylum
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