From next month - from July 1 - the share of foreign citizens in each of the residential areas of Turkey will not exceed 20%. In addition, 1.2 thousand. residential areas will be completely closed for settlement by migrants. Thus, the authorities hope to limit the number of migrants in the country..

Russian media write about this, specifying that today more than 3 million Syrians live in Turkey alone.. At the same time, it is known that Russian citizens leave Russia for Turkey..

As of June 9, 1.4 million foreigners lived in Turkey with a residence permit.

“We have prevented 2,626,170 people from entering Turkey at the borders and we have detained 1,246,000 immigrants inside the country over the past six years,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said, Anadolu reported..

According to him, if the authorities had not built walls on the eastern and southern borders, another 8 million people would have illegally entered Turkey in addition to the migrants already there..

In April, 133 thousand houses and apartments were sold in Turkey, which is 39 percent more than a year ago. The main foreign buyers of Turkish real estate are citizens of the Russian Federation. dw wrote about it. com.

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Earlier, the EU countries called on Turkey to take a more decisive position towards Russia..