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EU states are outsourcing their human rights obligations to a brutal Turkish regime that is becoming increasingly authoritarian as it attacks innocent Kurds, campaigners have said.<\/p>\n
The EU-Turkish deal struck on Friday will see all refugees and migrants coming to Europe sent back across the Aegean Sea.<\/p>\n
European Council President Donald Tusk confirmed the agreement on Friday afternoon, following talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The deal means all migrants and refugees entering Greece as of Sunday can expect to be sent back to Turkey.<\/p>\n
In return for allowing refugees to come back through its borders, Turkey can expect \u201cre-energized\u201d<\/em> negotiations on its EU membership status. The EU has also pledged to hand over \u20ac3 billion ($3.4 billion) to assist Syrian refugees in Turkey, with extra projects to be agreed next week.<\/p>\n Speaking ahead\u00a0of Friday\u2019s EU-Turkey summit on migration, Global Justice Now (GJN) Director Nick Dearden said EU leaders have abandoned \u201cany pretense of the EU\u2019s principles\u201d<\/em> and that the bloc is being threatened by Turkey.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we call a \u2018migrant crisis\u2019 is actually a crisis of global injustice caused by war, poverty and inequality. To demonize those making a rational choice on the part of themselves, their family and their community obscures the truth,\u201d<\/em> he said.<\/p>\n \u201cMigration is bringing those of us in Europe face-to-face with the reality of the world our leaders have constructed.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The deal, which was approved by 28 EU leaders, will see Turkey resettle thousands of refugees.<\/p>\n Since January last year, hundreds of thousands of refugees entered Greece on boats from Turkey. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said a credible EU-Turkey agreement is vital.<\/p>\n German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Turkey must adhere to international standards of protection for all migrants and refugees.\u00a0Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hit back, however, saying Europe should examine its own record on refugees before advising Turkey on what to do.<\/p>\n Amnesty International also criticized the agreement. Shortly after the deal was announced, the human rights group placed a large screen outside the Brussels summit which read: \u201cDon\u2019t trade refugees. Stop the deal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EU states are outsourcing their human rights obligations to a brutal Turkish regime that is becoming increasingly authoritarian as it attacks innocent Kurds, campaigners have said. The EU-Turkish deal struck on Friday will see all refugees and migrants coming to Europe sent back across the Aegean Sea. European Council President Donald Tusk confirmed the agreement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-232457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}