North gives over 6,000 irregular migrants amnesty

Exactly 6,165 irregular migrants in the north were given amnesty by the ‘government’ as part of its latest “migration amnesty” scheme, ‘interior minister’ Dursun Oguz said on Wednesday.

Speaking to Kibris Postasi TV, he said a total of 7,659 people had applied for the amnesty after the scheme was made operational on August 5.

“Not all the applicants were approved. We had tied this amnesty to conditions, but we also approached it from a humanitarian perspective,” he said.