Thursday, March 17, 2016

The EU-Turkey Migrant Deal Is a Moral Disaster - Fortune

Why the EU-Turkey Migrant Deal Is a Moral Disaster

COMMENTARY by Bridget Anderson

March 17, 2016, 1:00 AM EDT

Europe is having an identity crisis.

Last week, European and Turkish leaders agreed on the outline of an arrangement that would allow a sort of human conveyor belt in which “irregular” migrants would be returned from Greece to Turkey. For every Syrian returned under this agreement, one Syrian refugee in a Turkish camp would be resettled. Some of the UK’s tabloid newspapers dubbed it the “migrant merry-go-round”—but there is nothing merry about this deal whatsoever.

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