The EU wants to give Turkey 3.2 billion usd to keep the refugees, but this proposal Turkey has not been received favourably.
A park in central Istanbul has been taken over by Afghanistan refugees. After selling all they owned to escape the threats of Taliban and ISIL insurgents back home, these people are now stuck in Turkey with little to no money to move on.
The Turkish government has been helping the refugees to the tune of 8.5 billion dollars of which only 400 million dollars was from international aid support. Turkey’s 2.2 million new “guests” have also been hurting Turkey’s economy.
Turkey’s main opposition party, the CHP( Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi), says the country has lost upwards of 8 billion dollars in lost trade and plummeting tourism in the last four years.
