{"id":21032,"date":"2026-09-03T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/turkey-detains-25314-afghans-in-eight-months\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:49:25","slug":"turkey-detains-25314-afghans-in-eight-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/03\/turkey-detains-25314-afghans-in-eight-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey detains 25,314 Afghans in first eight months, migration data show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures from Turkey&#8217;s Directorate of Migration Management show that police in the country detained 25,314 Afghan nationals in the first eight months of this year on suspicion of undocumented migration.<\/p>\n<p>According to the figures, nearly 95,000 undocumented migrants from different countries were detained in Turkey during the same period, with Afghans forming the largest group among those held.<\/p>\n<p>After Afghan nationals, citizens of Syria, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Morocco, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan and Yemen made up the next largest numbers on the list of detainees.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Turkey has been one of the main routes and destinations for migration for Afghan citizens, and the country&#8217;s migration statistics are usually published periodically to show the detention and identification of undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey detained 25,314 Afghans in the first eight months of the year, according to new migration data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21032","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\/21032","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=21032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}