Turkey hosts a very large number of refugees – more than 5.5 million, including 3.5 million from Syria, according to figures from the Turkish authorities responsible for migration issues.
But in recent years, as the state of freedoms deteriorated and the economic crisis worsened, many Turkish citizens themselves became candidates for departure to Europe or North America. Very important from 1960 to 1990, this Turkish emigration had experienced a trough in the 2000s.
While some, students or graduates in sectors such as medicine or computer engineering, obtain work visas quite easily allowing them to emigrate legally, others take more tortuous roads.
The daily One day reports that in the first five months of 2022, 11,827 Turkish citizens were arrested by US police as they illegally crossed the border from Mexico, the first step to emigrate to the United States or Canada .
Mexico, which welcomes Turkish citizens without