Turkey's Asylum Increase in Norway – News From The World

remarkable in recent weeks in Norway's asylum applications announced that Turkey is an increase. The application procedures will take time because the Oslo government would have wanted to compare requests from other countries.

Frode Forfang, head of the Norwegian Immigration Department, said the applicants were citing mainly "political persecution" because of their links with the Gulen organization. Up to now, 245 Turkish citizens have applied for asylum in Norway in 2018. 142 of them took place in June. Last year, 164 Turkish nationals applied for asylum in Norway.

The Norwegian Ministry of Immigration did not comment on the reason for this increase in June. President Forfang said that asylum applications have been approved by the majority of people who have already been granted asylum in the past.

Turkey mainly because of the recognition of the right of asylum to people who claimed that Gulen dependency by structuring react to European countries. Ankara, accusing the Gulen organization of having attempted the coup on July 15, 2016, accuses Europe of "receiving terrorists".

Germany is at the head of countries where Turkish citizens ask for asylum. Five thousand 742 Turkish state coup attempt in 2016 that revealed that the asylum seekers' experiences in Germany, the number of candidates of Turkey in the year 2017 was 8 483 000. The total number of applications in the first five months of this year was 3 thousand 711.

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