135 bin 844 migrants leave Turkey for Greece, Turkey's Interior Minister says

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu gave information Wednesday about the migrants, who left Turkey for Europe, in a statement on Twitter.
04.03.2020 11:55:06 / English News

"As of 09:00 on Wednesday, the number of migrants who left Turkey for Greece is 135,844," the statement said.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced last week that Turkey would stop keeping hundreds of thousands of migrants in its territory after an air strike on Idlib in northern Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers and injured many others.

Reported by UNHCR in 2018, Turkey is hosting 63.4% of all the refugees (from Middle East, Africa, and Afghanistan) in the world. As of 2019, Refugees of the Syrian Civil War in Turkey (3.6 million) are highest "registered" refugees. (ILKHA)