EU: Human rights cost of refugee deal with Turkey too high to be replicated elsewhere

Amnesty International – The EU-Turkey refugee deal has left thousands of refugees and migrants in squalid and dangerous living conditions, and must not be replicated with other countries, Amnesty International said today ahead of the deal’s one year anniversary. Continue reading EU: Human rights cost of refugee deal with Turkey too high to be replicated elsewhere

Turkey: State paramilitaries are destroying Syrian refugees’ tent homes in İzmir

Evimiz Neresi? – As of February 8th, refugees living in tents in the Torbalı and Bayındır districts of İzmir are being evacuated in accordance with district governorate decisions through the intervention of its gendarmerie State paramilitary force. The tent areas are being removed. Thousands of refugees, who left their countries because of the civil war in Syria, have been struggling to survive as seasonal agricultural workers and living in the tent camps, constructed through their own efforts, in rural areas of İzmir.
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Turkey intercepts over 400 migrants en route to Greece

Anadolu Agency* – A total of 422 migrants were intercepted by Turkish police over the last week (Jan 27 – Feb 3) en route to Greek islands, the Interior Ministry said on Saturday.

Coast Guard patrols apprehended 56 migrants offshore trying to cross the Aegean Sea between the southwestern Bodrum peninsula and the Greek island of Kos.

The full article can be read at Anadolu Ajansi.

*the source is the Turkish state-run news agency

Ankara says Greece has ‘forcefully’ sent thousands of migrants back to Turkey

Hürriyet Daily News – Turkey stated on Feb. 3 that Greece had “forcefully” sent thousands of migrants back to Turkey via the River Evros in recent months. Officials from the Directorate General of Migration Management, which works under the Interior Ministry, said that Greece sent back more than 3,000 migrants to Turkey in the past four months.

The full article can be read at Hürriyet Daily News.