Moroccan Migrants Stranded in Turkish Prisons as Families Seek Repatriation
With the closure of international borders, access to the European area via Turkey has become an impossible mission for Moroccan immigration candidates. While some manage to find their way back, the majority are in Turkish prisons.
An alarming and especially unbearable situation for the mothers, forced to wait for the opening of airspaces to go in search of their children.
According to Hespress, dozens of young Moroccans are serving their sentences in Turkish prisons for theft, fraud, violence or membership in criminal drug trafficking or human trafficking networks.
About sixty young Moroccans, who became homeless in Istanbul after spending a year in prison, recently appealed to the Moroccan embassy to find them shelter. The descent into hell, confides a young Moroccan, begins when the Turkish authorities deprive them of their identity by confiscating their passports, identity documents and means of communication.
Other undocumented Moroccan migrants, also homeless in Istanbul, recount having been incarcerated for several weeks in Greece, after being arrested by NATO forces at the Greek-Turkish border.
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