Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Country: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Greece, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, World
Overview
The majority of those returned to Turkey are Pakistani nationals (38 percent of total). Syrians constitute 19 percent of the total number of those returned, and are followed by Algerians, Afghans and Bangladeshis.
In total, 341 Syrians have been returned to Turkey to date. 38 of them have been returned on the basis that their asylum claims were found inadmissible at 2nd instance.
Of all those returned, 45 percent did not express a will to apply for asylum or withdrew their will to apply for asylum or withdrew their asylum claims in Greece.
Return trend – February 2018 to February 2019