{"id":1393103,"date":"2022-03-22T01:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393103"},"modified":"2022-03-22T01:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:14:45","slug":"report-14000-russians-have-fled-to-turkey-over-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-14000-russians-have-fled-to-turkey-over-ukraine-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: 14,000 Russians Have Fled to Turkey over Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-14000-russians-have-fled-to-turkey-over-ukraine-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">An estimated 14,000 Russians have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/some-14-000-russians-flee-to-turkey-after-ukraine-war-172349\">fled<\/a> to Turkey since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last month, Turkey\u2019s <em>H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/em> reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome 14,000 Russians have fled to Turkey in just three weeks after the conflict in Ukraine broke out because of what they describe as deteriorating conditions in their country,\u201d the publication reported on March 21.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cRussian and Ukrainian citizens are not required to have a visa to enter Turkey and can stay for up to three months in the country,\u201d according to the <em>H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper interviewed a 23-year-old Russian citizen named Ana who arrived in Turkey on March 7. She revealed that, in addition to Turkey, the nation of Georgia has likewise become a popular destination for people leaving Russia in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Another Russian national who recently arrived in Turkey named Vladimir Piskunov told the <em>H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/em> he originally planned to travel to Slovenia, \u201cbut the borders were closed and [his] plane tickets were canceled.\u201d Piskunov then settled on Istanbul as his destination, arriving on February 28.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Uzbekistan has joined Turkey and Georgia as among the group of nations welcoming people fleeing Russia since it launched a war with neighboring Ukraine on February 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt least several thousand Russians are estimated to have come to Uzbekistan, where some 2 percent of the population is ethnic Russian,\u201d Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/uzbekistan-russians-ukraine-war-skyrocketing-prices\/31761937.html\">reported<\/a> on March 20.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government-funded broadcaster emphasized its report was based on estimations and anecdotal evidence, noting the Uzbek Migration Agency had yet to release any official figures confirming the recent Russian immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining why many Russians have seemingly chosen to leave Russia for Central Asia over the past month, RFE\/RL wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Along with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan are popular destinations in Central Asia for fleeing Russians, as are the cities of Tbilisi, Yerevan, Helsinki, Dubai, Istanbul, and Antalya. They are all places that Russians are still allowed to fly to \u2014 many countries are preventing Russian planes from landing or flying over their territory \u2014 and places where a Russian passport is accepted without a visa.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russia has been <a href=\"https:\/\/graphics.reuters.com\/UKRAINE-CRISIS\/SANCTIONS\/byvrjenzmve\/\">subjected<\/a> to a slew of financial sanctions since starting its latest war with Ukraine on February 24. The U.S. government has encouraged the international community to follow its example and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/russia-ukraine-western-reaction-putin-united-nations\/31715724.html\">levy<\/a> wide-ranging economic sanctions on Moscow to punish the Kremlin for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1409329\">launching<\/a> what it describes as a \u201cspecial military operation\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions have precipitated a rapid decline of Russia\u2019s economy in recent days and subsequently contributed to the exodus of its citizens to Central Asia, RFE\/RL noted on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[M]any Uzbek migrants from Russia who have lost their jobs due to the sanctions [have returned to Uzbekistan],\u201d the U.S government-funded broadcaster observed on March 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An estimated 14,000 Russians have fled to Turkey since Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine last month, Turkey\u2019s H\u00fcrriyet Daily News reported on Monday. \u201cSome 14,000 Russians have fled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}