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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Thousands of Kurdish Yezidi refugees have fled Turkish refugee camps and amassed at the Bulgarian border in an attempt to enter Europe, but on Sunday, Turkish security forces confronted the would-be immigrants and told them to turn back.
“Where are the European countries? Where is humanity? We left Iraq to Turkey eager to find justice. But there is no justice here, they discriminate against us,” Hussein Ali Khan, a Yezidi refugee, told Rudaw.
Turkish forces claim they follow the law by not letting the refugees enter other countries, but the refuges insist they will not go back to the camps.
“All that matters now is to move on, we don’t even care where we go… let us die on the streets… let them kill us. We are dying daily, we can’t stand it anymore,” said one female refugee.
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