The Number of Refugees was Announced in Turkey in January 2017

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Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said the number of immigrants and refugees he is hosting is 3.551.778. In a speech at a meeting of the Immigration Policy Council, Soylu said: “According to the data of the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Administration, What the public institutions, civil society organizations and the Turkish people spent for Syrian refugees amounted to 25 billion dollars. ”

“Since 2011, the” open door “policy has been applied to Syrian citizens, and it is reported that approximately 10% of the Syrians in Turkey live in border camps.
He pointed out that the verification of data and update the rest of the Syrians under temporary protection is still ongoing, and said that the process of adding fingerprints of all foreigners to the database is continuing and fast.

He added: “The total number of requests for asylum Syrians received by the European Union countries 866.831 people.”