Published : 27-08-2018
A Palestinian family displaced from Yarmouk Camp has been detained by the Turkish border guards on a borderland with Turkey.
AGPS news correspondent said two men, two women, and an eight-month girl attempted to creep into Turkey on August 19, before they were arrested by the Turkish gendarmerie.
The Turkish cops transferred the family to a prison in Antakya, where a number of Palestinian and Syrian families fleeing the deadly warfare have also been held.
AGPS reporter sounded the alarm over the abject conditions endured by asylum-seeking families in the detention center, where men, women, and children are seen lying on the ground and have been receiving only one meal daily and limited quantities of water.
The detainees’ families said they had reached out to the Palestine Embassy in Turkey but the latter said nothing can be done to work out the situation.
Palestinians caught on Turkish borderlands are often sent to jail and released days afterwards. Syrian nationals are immediately sent back to northern Syria or refugee camps set up on the Turkish borders.
The families appealed to the Turkish authorities to grant the displaced families asylum and not to deport them to war-stricken zones.
Turkey has suspended visas for Palestinians from Syria, blocking their access to its territories via legal routes.
A Palestinian family displaced from Yarmouk Camp has been detained by the Turkish border guards on a borderland with Turkey.
AGPS news correspondent said two men, two women, and an eight-month girl attempted to creep into Turkey on August 19, before they were arrested by the Turkish gendarmerie.
The Turkish cops transferred the family to a prison in Antakya, where a number of Palestinian and Syrian families fleeing the deadly warfare have also been held.
AGPS reporter sounded the alarm over the abject conditions endured by asylum-seeking families in the detention center, where men, women, and children are seen lying on the ground and have been receiving only one meal daily and limited quantities of water.
The detainees’ families said they had reached out to the Palestine Embassy in Turkey but the latter said nothing can be done to work out the situation.
Palestinians caught on Turkish borderlands are often sent to jail and released days afterwards. Syrian nationals are immediately sent back to northern Syria or refugee camps set up on the Turkish borders.
The families appealed to the Turkish authorities to grant the displaced families asylum and not to deport them to war-stricken zones.
Turkey has suspended visas for Palestinians from Syria, blocking their access to its territories via legal routes.
