Repatriation

The number of irregular migrants deported from Türkiye in 2022 has soared to nearly 70,000 and increased by 142 percent compared to the same period of 2021, Directorate General of Migration Management has announced.

Turkey has increased the number of repatriation centers, expanding the capacity of those facilities to accommodate 20,000 people.

The capacity of the repatriation centers scattered across the European Union countries is only 16,000.

Kosovo has taken a huge step toward the repatriation of its citizens who joined the terrorist group ISIS in Syria and Iraq, but the families of returnees are not receiving enough financial aid to meet their basic needs, a report issued by the International Republican Institute on Tuesday concluded.

Italy has won a legal victory in its bid to reclaim an ancient marble statue it asserted was stolen after it turned up in the possession of a New York antiquities dealer.

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A pact with the U.S. on restricting imports of archaeological and ethnological materials from Turkey was published in the nation's Official Gazette on March 5. 

The Greek Culture Ministry said Wednesday it would seek the repatriation from New York of a 2,700-year-old bronze horse statuette which it says was illegally exported from Greece, after a US court rejected an auction house's bid to proceed with the sale of the artifact.

The Italian Foreign Ministry, the Italian Civil Protection Department and the Greek Embassy in Rome have announced that a new operation is being planned to repatriate Greeks currently in Italy who wish to return to their home country.

The repatriation will apply to those who have lost their jobs in Italy, have nowhere to stay or have a serious health problem.

One hundred Greeks who were holidaying in Morocco will be repatriated later on Wednesday on an Aegean Airlines flight  from Marrakesh, the Foreign Ministry said in a press release Wednesday.

The repatriation followed a phone call between Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita on Tuesday, it added.

EU-backed repatriations program aim to ease pressure on islands Migration Policy Minister Notis Mitarakis and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson on Thursday jointly announced the establishment of a European Union-backed program for the repatriation of 5,000 migrants from Greece to their home countries.

Migration Policy Minister Notis Mitarakis and European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson on Thursday jointly announced the establishment of a European Union-backed program for the repatriation of 5,000 migrants from Greece.