Turkey — Migrant Presence Monitoring - Situation Report (February 2022)

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Contact
DTM Turkey, dtmturkey@iom.int
Language
English
Period Covered
Feb 01 2022
Feb 28 2022
Activity
  • Flow Monitoring Survey
  • Flow Monitoring
  • Migrants presence

According to the latest available figures from the Turkish Presidency of Migration Management (PMM)1, there are more than 5* million foreign nationals present in Turkish territory, 3.7* million of whom are seeking international protection.
Most of those seeking international protection are Syrians (3,747,734* individuals) who are granted the temporary protection status in Turkey. In addition, international protection applicants are most frequently nationals of Afghanistan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Iraq constitute another group of foreign nationals. According to PMM, there were 29,256* international protection applicants present in Turkey in 20212, published annually. Moreover, according to UNHCR**, there are close to 330,000 international protection status holders and asylum-seekers.
In addition, there are 1,394,437* foreign nationals under residence permit holder status; this number includes humanitarian residence holders.


*Data Source PMM, 03.03.2022
**Data source UNHCR, December 2021