ANKARA, Jun 12 (NNN-ANADOLU) – Türkiye will enforce stricter restrictions on the areas where foreign nationals can reside, Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu, said yesterday.
Soylu said, from Jul 1, foreigners cannot get resident permission in any neighbourhood, where the foreign population accounts for 20 percent of the total, noting that up to 1,200 neighbourhoods will be affected by the new regulation.
The Türkiye government first announced in Feb that, foreigners, including Syrians, would no longer be permitted to live in areas, where the foreign population exceeds 25 percent of the total.
Soylu also said, the Türkiye government will not allow Syrians to visit their families in Syria, for the approaching Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice. The festival is set for mid-July this year.
Earlier this year, the same ban was imposed for Eid al-Fitr, which marked the end of Ramadan.
Hosting about 3.7 million Syrian refugees within its borders, Türkiye has seen a growing anti-migrant sentiment cross the country, amid one of its worst economic troubles in years.– NNN-ANADOLU
