{"id":17393,"date":"2026-07-13T07:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/13\/turkey-detains-20-afghan-refugees-3-traffickers-bolu\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:30:29","slug":"turkey-detains-20-afghan-refugees-3-traffickers-bolu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/07\/13\/turkey-detains-20-afghan-refugees-3-traffickers-bolu\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Detains 20 Afghan Refugees and Three Human Traffickers in Bolu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish police have announced the detention of 20 Afghan refugees without residence permits in the city of Bolu. At the same time, three individuals suspected of human trafficking have also been arrested. According to the police, after completing administrative procedures, these individuals have been handed over to the Bolu Immigration Directorate for deportation.<\/p>\n<p>According to published information, the cases of these refugees are being reviewed within the framework of Turkish immigration regulations, and the final decision regarding their deportation will be made by the relevant authorities.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, Turkey has intensified the detention and deportation of undocumented migrants, primarily Afghan nationals. These actions come amid widespread economic crisis, massive unemployment, and social restrictions within Afghanistan, which have forced many Afghans to leave the country\u2014a situation that has worsened since the Taliban regained power.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Turkish Immigration Administration reported that during the first six months of this year, 19,574 Afghan refugees were detained across the country. According to these statistics, Afghans top the list of detainees related to illegal immigration in Turkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey detains 20 undocumented Afghan refugees and three traffickers in Bolu amid a surge in Afghan migrant arrests across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}