Externalizing the right to asylum, closing borders and making deals with unscrupulous states contributed to cause the humanitarian crisis at the Greek-Turkish border.
The Greek authority’s announcement to deport exiles to Erdogan’s Turkey or even to their country of origin, without any examination of their situation and their need for protection, is unbearable.
The situation at the Greek-Turkish border is the consequence of the policy of the European Union, which is closing borders, externalising asylum and bargaining with unscrupulous states.
Xenophobia, racism and their normalisation must be opposed everywhere they surface, be it in Turkey, Greece and anywhere else. The instrumentalisation of the lives of migrants, asylum seekers and refugees reduced to a threat and a bargaining chip must end, both in domestic electoral campaigns and in the relations between the Turkish government and the EU.
The security policies that push thousands of already displaced people into a limbo and the border regimes that cause the endless cycle of violence against them must cease.
What we demand are peace, fundamental rights and freedoms of every person on the move.
The collective communication is also available in French, Spanish and Italian.
ASGI signed the press release as part of Migreurop, an European and African network of associations and researchers whose objective is to make known and fight against the generalization of the confinement of foreigners and the multiplication of camps, a defice at the heart of the European Union externalization policy.
