Europe’s Gatekeeper. Unlawful detention and deportation of refugees from Turkey

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Publication Date December 2015
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The European Union (EU) was in danger of being complicit in serious human rights violations against refugees and asylum-seekers, said Amnesty International, as it published in December 2015 damning evidence that the Turkish authorities had been unlawfully apprehending, detaining and pressuring refugees and asylum-seekers to return to war zones.

The report Europe’s Gatekeeper documented how, since September 2015, in parallel with EU-Turkey migration talks, the Turkish authorities had rounded up and herded scores – possibly hundreds – of refugees and asylum-seekers onto buses and transported them more than 1,000 kilometres to isolated detention centres where they had been held incommunicado. Some report being shackled for days on end, beaten and forcibly transported back to the countries they had fled.

Source Link Link to Main Source https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur44/3022/2015/en/
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Amnesty International: Press Release, 16.12.15: Turkey: EU risks complicity in violations as refugees and asylum-seekers locked up and deported https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/12/turkey-eu-refugees-detention-deportation/
Today's Zaman, 16.12.15: Amnesty report: Turkish authorities mistreat refugees, asylum seekers in Turkey http://www.todayszaman.com/diplomacy_amnesty-report-turkish-authorities-mistreat-refugees-asylum-seekers-in-turkey_407109.html
ESO: Background information: ‘Like-minded countries’ hold mini-summit with Turkey http://www.europeansources.info/record/like-minded-countries-hold-mini-summit-with-turkey/
ESO: Background Information: International Summit: Meeting of the EU heads of state or government with Turkey, Brussels, 29 November 2015 http://www.europeansources.info/record/international-summit-meeting-of-the-eu-heads-of-state-or-government-with-turkey-brussels-29-november-2015/
BBC News, 16.12.15: Turkey mistreated scores of migrants, says Amnesty http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35110779
The Guardian, 27.11.15: Turkey putting Syrian refugees 'at serious risk of human rights abuse' http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/27/amnesty-international-turkey-syrian-refugees-human-rights-abuse

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