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Europe
Turkey not cooperating under migrant deal: Greek asylum official
2023-05-20
[Rudaw] The head of Greece’s refugee service said that for three years, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
has not fully abided by the terms of its 2016 migrant deal with the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
"Since [March 2020], Ottoman Turkish authorities are not cooperating and they are not accepting people back to their territory," Marios Kaleas, Greece’s director of asylum services, told Rudaw’s Nma Nabaz on Friday.

In 2016, Turkey and the EU signed a multi-billion euro deal aimed at containing a wave of migration into Europe. Under the deal, Ankara agreed to stop people from traveling irregularly to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and to accept failed asylum seekers from Europe. In exchange, Turkey received funds and Ottoman Turkish citizens could travel to Europe visa-free.

Kaleas said the deal has achieved its main goal since it reduced the migrant flow, but some parts require better implementation.

"There are specific parts of the agreement that seem like it is not working. We have to rethink how we implement it," he said.

Kaleas led a Greek delegation visiting the Kurdistan Region this week.

Athens has been accused by human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state...
organizations of assaulting migrants colonists and pushing them back across the border into Turkey. In 2022, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Greece had violated the EU’s human rights convention in its practice of forcing boats of asylum seekers back to Turkey.

Greece is considered a gateway to western Europe for migrants colonists passing through Turkey, including many Kurds taking dangerous land or sea journeys with the hopes of making better lives for themselves and their families.

Turkey is home to over 3.6 million registered Syrian refugees as well as other nationalities, according to the United Nations
...the Oyster Bay money pit...
refugee agency, UNHCR. There is growing anti-refugee sentiment in the country amidst rising inflation and cost of living and it is an election issue ahead of a run-off between President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
and his challenger Kamal Kilicdaroglu on May 28. Neither achieved the needed majority in the first round of voting on May 14.
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