“You sleep with the devil; you wake up in hell!”: On the new EU-Turkey Deal

Nikos Christofis
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Nikos Christofis: Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China

The Commentaries, 2021, vol. 1, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: European Union; Turkey; deal; refugees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.33182/com.v1i1.1987

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