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

Author(s): Nikos Christofis
Subject(s): Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: United Nations High Commissioner; Refugees; UNHCR; Amnesty International; challenge; Turkey; EU; Europe; organization; frontex; pushbacks; devil; escape;
Summary/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.

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