EU Refugee Crisis: Turkey as an Effective Partner?
Appeasing Erdogan’s Turkey without regard for European values won’t create an effective border.
By Aykan Erdemir, March 6, 2016
Turkey does not grant refugee status to Syrians, only to asylum seekers arriving from Europe.
Turkey sees itself as a temporary destination in the refugees’ search for a third country.
Turkey turns into a permanent waiting room for individuals who fail to resettle in a third country.
Syrian refugees are caught in the crossfire of government propaganda and opposition polemic.
Eighty-five percent of the Turkish public is against granting citizenship to displaced Syrians.
European leaders are ready to pursue transactional relations at the expense of values-based policies.
Turkey is not reducing the magnitude of the refugee crisis, but magnifying it further.
An authoritarian Turkey cannot be a partner for the EU’s efforts to deal with the refugee crisis.
Numbers alone are sufficient to convey the grim reality of Syrian refugees in Turkey: Of the 4.3 million displaced Syrians who have been registered as persons of concern by the UNHCR, 2.2 million currently reside in Turkey.
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