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
Monthly Archives: February 2017
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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Refugees on Chios Steal Boat and Attempt Return to Turkey
Greekreporter – A 32 year-old Syrian and a 28 year-old man from Egypt stole the boat from St. Hermione port early on Wednesday and set sail for the Turkish coasts. They were spotted by a Frontex patrol vessel, taken back to Chios and the two refugees were arrested with charges of theft. The boat was returned to its owner.
The full article can be read at Greekreporter.
Shipwreck off Ayvacık: one woman died
Hürriyet (link in Turkish) – 46 asylum seekers tried to cross to Lesvos by boat. At around 2 a.m. their engine broke and they had to call the Turkish Coast Guard.
The full article can be read at Hürriyet Daily News.
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.
REFUGEES AS PEONS IN FOREIGN POLICY: TURKEY, THE EU AND REFLECTIONS OF LASKER AND NIMZOWITSCH
We published a paper on the EU-Turkey deal and how refugees in Turkey are being instrumentalized and used as bargain written by Nicolas Parent in late summer last year. Read the paper here
203 foreign nationals in custody after police operation in Istanbul
Anadolu Ajansi (Link in Turkish) – According to state-run press agency Anadolu Ajansi 211 people were taken into custody during a so called security operation in Istanbul. The operation mainly involved foreign nationals and was conducted by riot police and anti-terror teams.
The full article can be read at Anadolu Ajansi.