Turkey Statement News Today

On the eighth anniversary of the EU-Turkey Statement, we denounce Turkey and EU states' consistent failure to uphold their international obligations with regard to migrants and refugees, and strengthen our joint commitment to challenge all official and unofficial policies that lead to the discrimination, segregation, and ultimately exclusion of migrants.

The EU Commission presented plans Wednesday for a sustainable European migration management system, which would prevent irregular departures, combat smuggling and provide legal pathways.

Analysis in English on Türkiye and 4 other countries about Protection and Human Rights; published on 16 Mar 2023 by Fenixaid

As leaders meet for their Brussels summit on migration, the 2016 "deal" with Turkey is a prime example of why the EU should not transfer its own responsibilities regarding migration to third states.

Both sides of the Atlantic Ocean could witness migration crises this year. But the number of illegal arrivals is likely to be much smaller in Europe than in the United States. That’s in large part due to the role of gatekeepers: nearby countries with which the European Union (EU) and various member states made agreements to stop, or at least mitigate, the flow of irregular mass migration.

In the age of irregular mass migration, gatekeeper states must be part of a durable solution.

The 73-page report, “‘No One Asked Me Why I Left Afghanistan,’ says that Turkey has stepped up pushbacks and deportations to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover there in August 2021. Human Rights Watch also found that that Afghans inside Turkey are being blocked from registering for international protection and that Afghans facing imminent deportation are often given no opportunity to make refugee claims. As of October 20, 2022, the Presidency of Migration Management in Turkey’s Inter...

Over the weekend of October 15, 92 immigrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Morocco, Iran, Bangladesh and Pakistan were discovered in Greece—at the Evros river border with Turkey—after having been abandoned and stripped completely naked by authorities.

As we take a short editorial break for the summer, we looked back at our most viewed blogs on Jobs and Development. From the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on workers to integrating refugees in the labor force to regulating labor markets in developing countries, here are the most viewed blogs from the past year, in order of their popularity.

A mass attempt on June 24, 2022, of about 2000 African migrants to scale the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla left at least 37 people dead.Several human rights or