More and more Turks want asylum in Germany

berlin - More and more Turkish diplomats want, whether or not accompanied by his wife and children, political asylum in Germany. They fear persecution in their own country to be for alleged involvement in the failed coup last July. When the Federal Government so far are 136 asylum applications known of Turks with a diplomatic passport.

That the Interior Ministry Friday responded to questions from Özcan Mutlu, MP for the Greens. German media reported that the 136 notifications were made between August 2016 and January this year. In October, the government said Merkel still 35 cases.

According to the Ministry takes the examination of an asylum application by a Turkish national average of fourteen months. Diplomats and their close relatives have no precedence. The current political refugees also rising steadily, from 1800 through 2014 over 4600 to 5742 last year, including 4,300 Turkish Kurds. Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu demanded in November still the extradition of more than 4000 members ('terrorists') of the banned Workers' Party PKK.