{"id":5842,"date":"2021-08-20T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T10:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2021-08-20T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T10:53:33","slug":"turkey-has-no-duty-responsibility-or-obligation-to-be-europes-refugee-storehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/turkey-has-no-duty-responsibility-or-obligation-to-be-europes-refugee-storehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Turkey has no duty, responsibility, or obligation to be Europe&#8217;s refugee storehouse&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Turkey\u2019s president affirmed his country&#8217;s commitment to Afghanistan&#8217;s \u201cstability and security\u201d Thursday and said Ankara could hold talks with the government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will meet with the government formed by the Taliban if necessary, and discuss our mutual agendas,&#8221; Recep Tayyip Erdogan said following a five-hour Cabinet meeting at the presidential complex in the capital Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban seized control of the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, forcing President Ashraf Ghani and other top government officials to leave the country, reported Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that there are 5,000 Turkish citizens residing in Afghanistan for various reasons, Erdogan said 500 Turkish citizens along with 83 foreign nationals were brought to Turkey upon request.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will transfer our citizens, who are still waiting in line for their return, whose number is below 300, to our country as soon as possible,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Erdogan further dismissed claims by the opposition that Turkey is hosting 1.5 million Afghan refugees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Turkey has no duty, responsibility, or obligation to be Europe&#8217;s refugee storehouse,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding irregular migrants, Erdogan said at least 235,000 Afghans have been sent back.<\/p>\n<p>He also said that nearly 450,000 Syrians in Turkey have returned back to regions that have been liberated from terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey has been a key transit point for asylum seekers who want to cross into Europe to start new lives, especially those fleeing war and persecution.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey, which already hosts 4 million refugees &#8212; more than any country in the world &#8212; is taking new security measures within and on borders to prevent a fresh influx of migrants<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Turkey\u2019s president affirmed his country&#8217;s commitment to Afghanistan&#8217;s \u201cstability and security\u201d Thursday and said Ankara could hold talks with the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[84,187,12,13,41],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-turkey","tag-us","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-migration"],"views":609,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}