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The Grand Turk
Turkey to deport nearly 600 Afghan migrants: Interior ministry
2018-04-08
[AlAhram] Ottoman Turkish authorities will deport close to 600 illegal Afghan migrants colonists in eastern The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
back to Kabul this weekend, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

The Afghan migrants colonists had crossed into Turkey through Iran due to "ongoing terrorist activities and economic troubles" in Afghanistan, the ministry said, and security forces had handed the migrants colonists over to provincial immigration authorities.

It said deportation procedures had been completed for 591 migrants colonists in the eastern province of Erzurum and that charter flights to Kabul would be arranged on Saturday and Sunday to send the migrants colonists back.

"Following the completion of deportation procedures for illegal migrants colonists in our other provinces, deportations will speed up and continue in the coming days," the ministry said in a statement.

Rights groups have criticised Turkey for deporting migrants colonists back to conflict-torn countries, including Afghanistan, saying it was putting their lives at risk.

This week the Hurriyet newspaper reported that several thousand Afghan migrants colonists had crossed into Turkey in recent months and had walked for days from the border to reach Erzurum.

Afghanistan has been ravaged by hard boy attacks this year, and the government has made promises to tighten security in the wake of an attack in central Kabul that killed around 100 people in January.

The attacks have undermined support for President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
, who offered in February to hold peace talks with Taliban
...Arabic for students...
snuffies fighting to drive out international forces and reimpose their version of strict Islamic law.

The Taliban have so far shown little sign of accepting the offer of talks with the Western-backed government, which they consider an illegitimate, foreign-imposed regime, although they have offered to talk to the United States.
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