A German study confirmed that the number of Syrian refugees in Turkey may have been much lower than officially announced.
The Turkish government and UNHCR are talking about an estimated 3.6 million Syrian refugees in Turkey.
But on Monday, the German Das Deutsche Zentrum für Integrations- und Migrations forschung (DeZIM) said on its website that it was “realistic” to consider the number of refugees to be around 2.7 million Syrians.
Deutsche Institute is part of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research in Berlin, which is supported by the Ministry of Family in Germany.
Erdogan also used to play on the Syrian refugees’ card and threaten to open their borders to Europe and drown them as they did in 2015, in pressuring the EU and its countries for more material and political gains.
