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“You sleep with the devil; you wake up in hell!”: On the new EU-Turkey Deal
Author(s) -
Nikos Christofis
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the commentaries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2754-8805
pISSN - 2754-8791
DOI - 10.33182/tc.v1i1.1987
Subject(s) - refugee , amnesty , political science , legitimacy , law , human rights , refugee crisis , guard (computer science) , politics , computer science , programming language
Right from the start in 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Amnesty International challenged the legitimacy of the so-called refugee deal between Turkey and the EU. Toward the end of 2020, the EU concluded another agreement with Turkey as part of the €6 billion in funding covered by the refugee deal, in spite of Turkey’s deteriorating human rights record. Against a backdrop of Turkey’s weaponizing of refugees against Europe and Europe’s treatment of the refugee issue as a local problem, the European border and coast guard organization Frontex has been practicing illegal pushbacks. It is clear that once you toy with the devil, you cannot escape hell.

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