"What Merkel, Tusk and Timmermans should have seen during their visit to Turkey" [Report from GUE/NGL Delegation to Turkey, May 2-4, 2016]

• Date: May 20 2016 Time: 09:03
• Description:
  A recent report published by GUE/NGL, following a field mission in Turkey, has shed some light on the consequences for migrants being returned to Turkey from the EU. The key findings of the delegation were: 1. People deported from Greece have, until now, had no opportunity to ask for asylum, neither in Greece nor in Turkey; 2. Detention under a prison-style regime including for children; 3. Documented push-backs to Turkey by Bulgarian and Greek police forces; 4. Horrifying testimonials from refugees as a result of the closure of the Turkish-Syrian border.