© AP/Lefteris PitarakisSyrian Refugees: Forced to live in Turkey; forced to live in a detention camp.
mean that many Syrian refugees are left without effective protection or access to jobs and services that they desperately need, Human Rights Watch has said. T
he European Commission is negotiating a deal under which
"irregular migrants" — those not granted asylum — arriving in Greece after March 20, 2016,
are relocated back to Turkey, in return — on a one-for-one basis — for Syrian refugees in Turkey being relocated to EU member states. However, the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Rescue Committee, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Save the Children and Red Cross — have said the
EU-Turkey deal is either immoral or illegal as the 'hotspots' where migrants are processed have become detention centers. They also say Turkey is not a 'safe country' for migrants to be returned to, under the Geneva Convention.In a
damning report, Human Rights Watch says the
laws and policies governing Syrian refugees' lives in Turkey, however, do not grant them full refugee rights, and the protections these laws and policies do extend have yet to be fully realized. As a result, many
Syrians in Turkey still cannot access education, health care, and lawful employment. Furthermore, delays of up to six months in registration for temporary protection mean that some refugees are
unable to get basic services and live in fear of being forced to live in a camp or deported.
"As Turkey is
host to over two million Syrian refugees it is hardly surprising that many are not getting the support they desperately need to maintain livelihoods.
The EU is morally, and indeed legally, obliged to share some of the refugee burden by not sending Syrian refugees back to Turkey without assessing their asylum claims," said Stephanie Gee, fellow in the refugee rights program at Human Rights Watch.
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