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Why did Turkey agree to that? Hopes for EU membership?

tut-urut-utut 5y ago
Turkey get paid quite well by the EU to keep the refugees / migrants there. It's a net profit for them. Moreover, they can, and use those same refugees to blackmail the EU whenever it's convenient to them.
icegreentea2 5y ago
Here's a review article on the agreement: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/eu-turkey-deal-five-years-on https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/eu-turkey-deal-five-... Snipping out the specific sentence: "In exchange, the European Union agreed to resettle Syrian refugees from Turkey on a one-to-one basis, reduce visa restrictions for Turkish citizens, pay 6 billion euros in aid to Turkey for Syrian migrant communities, update the customs union, and re-energize stalled talks regarding Turkey’s accession to the European Union"
mschuster91 5y ago
Simple, money: Greece closed down their borders for Syrian refugees many years ago, as did everyone else on the so-called "balkan route". In exchange for an awful lot of EU money (six billion € ) to "house migrants", Erdolf promised to have his coast guards prevent people from fleeing to Greece, which together with brutal and illegal pushbacks by the Greek Coast Guard and Frontex led to a collapse of that route, but still not an end, there are regular deaths. The Greek Coast Guard actually got accused a week ago of having murdered refugees by throwing them into the sea to drown [1]. In 2020, Erdolf told refugees that the borders to Greece had been opened and bused thousands of people to the borders, with two refugees being executed by Greek border police [2] during the subsequentriots. In the end, the situation was settled by the EU paying half a billion euros to the Turkish dictator [3]. [1]: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/griechenland-eu-grenzschuetzer-sollen-fluechtlinge-ins-meer-geworfen-haben-a-26747b1b-58f6-4f48-a3fe-50284ddca62d https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/griechenland-eu-grenzschuetze... [2]: https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/griechenland-tuerkei-eu-grenze-konflikt https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/griechenland-tue... [3]: https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-eu-und-die-tuerkei-brauchen-einen-neues-fluechtlingsabkommen-ld.1563124?reduced=true https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-eu-und-die-tuerkei-brau...

Turkey get paid quite well by the EU to keep the refugees / migrants there. It's a net profit for them. Moreover, they can, and use those same refugees to blackmail the EU whenever it's convenient to them.

icegreentea2 5y ago

Here's a review article on the agreement: https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/eu-turkey-deal-five-years-on https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/eu-turkey-deal-five-... Snipping out the specific sentence: "In exchange, the European Union agreed to resettle Syrian refugees from Turkey on a one-to-one basis, reduce visa restrictions for Turkish citizens, pay 6 billion euros in aid to Turkey for Syrian migrant communities, update the customs union, and re-energize stalled talks regarding Turkey’s accession to the European Union"

mschuster91 5y ago

Simple, money: Greece closed down their borders for Syrian refugees many years ago, as did everyone else on the so-called "balkan route". In exchange for an awful lot of EU money (six billion € ) to "house migrants", Erdolf promised to have his coast guards prevent people from fleeing to Greece, which together with brutal and illegal pushbacks by the Greek Coast Guard and Frontex led to a collapse of that route, but still not an end, there are regular deaths. The Greek Coast Guard actually got accused a week ago of having murdered refugees by throwing them into the sea to drown [1]. In 2020, Erdolf told refugees that the borders to Greece had been opened and bused thousands of people to the borders, with two refugees being executed by Greek border police [2] during the subsequentriots. In the end, the situation was settled by the EU paying half a billion euros to the Turkish dictator [3]. [1]: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/griechenland-eu-grenzschuetzer-sollen-fluechtlinge-ins-meer-geworfen-haben-a-26747b1b-58f6-4f48-a3fe-50284ddca62d https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/griechenland-eu-grenzschuetze... [2]: https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/griechenland-tuerkei-eu-grenze-konflikt https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-03/griechenland-tue... [3]: https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-eu-und-die-tuerkei-brauchen-einen-neues-fluechtlingsabkommen-ld.1563124?reduced=true https://www.nzz.ch/international/die-eu-und-die-tuerkei-brau...