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“You sleep with the devil; you wake up in hell!”: On the new EU-Turkey Deal

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  • Nikos Christofis

    (Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China)

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Right from the start in 2016, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and Amnesty International challenged the legitimacy of the so-called refugee deal between Turkey and the EU. Toward the end of 2020, the EU concluded another agreement with Turkey as part of the €6 billion in funding covered by the refugee deal, in spite of Turkey’s deteriorating human rights record. Against a backdrop of Turkey’s weaponizing of refugees against Europe and Europe’s treatment of the refugee issue as a local problem, the European border and coast guard organization Frontex has been practicing illegal pushbacks. It is clear that once you toy with the devil, you cannot escape hell.

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  • Nikos Christofis, 2021. "“You sleep with the devil; you wake up in hell!”: On the new EU-Turkey Deal," The Commentaries, Transnational Press London, UK, vol. 1(1), pages 1-7, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mig:commjl:v:1:y:2021:i:1:p:1-7
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.33182/com.v1i1.1987
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