CoE : Turkey is Not a Safe Country, for any Refugees !

*Strasbourg/CoE/Angelo Marcopolo/- CoE's PanEuropean Organisation for Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law, strongly stressed Today that Turkey is Not a "Safe" Country, particularly as far as Political or War Refugees' Freedoms and Protection are concerned, affecting a Key part of the Controversial EU - Turkey Deal, adopted in Brussels on 18 March 2016, under notoriously Heavy Pressure from Ankara's regime and by the Unprecedented "Tsunami" of more than 1 Million of Mass Asylum Seekers/irregular Migrants comming through Turkey to tresspass EU's (and Shenghen's)  External Borders via Greece, (Comp., .ex. : ....). 

This Conclusion was exceptionaly Voted Twice by CoE's PanEuropean Parliamentary Assembly, and clearly Confirmed by 2 successiv, Absolute Majority Votes, on the occasion of the Adoption of 3 Resolutions based in 3 relevant Reports, and particularly those focused on "The Situation of Refugees and Migrants under the EU - Turkey Agreement of 18/3/2016", and for "A Stronger European Reponse to the Syrian Refugee Crisis". 

 Significantly of the Importance that CoE's MEPs give to that crucial point is also the Fact that this was the Only Hotly Contested Issue (among various Others, f.ex. on the recent Closure of the Balkan route, etc), which was clearly Settled with a Twice Repeated Vote, in 2 Successive and Different Occasions, provided by the Original Text and attempts to Amend it, in the 2 above mentioned Draft Resolutions, where, even the Number of the Winning Majority of MEPs Votes increased spectacularly from the 1st towards the 2nd Vote, considerably Strengthening the Final Result, (which was also confirmed evenmore by the Final Adoption of the entire Resolutions which contain that Key point).

This practicaly means, that, according to the CoE, that controversial "EU - Turkey Agreement raises several Serious Human Rihts Issues", and, "in particular", that European Countries should Not routinely "Return ... Asylum Seekers, whether Syrians or Not, to Turkey, as a (so-called) "Safe Third Country", because this is "Contrary to European Union and/or International Law, as Turkey does Not provide them with the Protection" required by several basic Legal Human Rihts Instruments, (while "there have been" also "reports of onward refoulement, of both Syrians and non Syrians"). 

CoE's PanEuropean Organisation is 47 Member States - strong. It has been officialy given a crystal-clear Mandate, at the Highest Political level, on Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law, particularly specified by the 2004  Heads of State/Government Summit in Warsaw (Poland : Comp. "Eurofora" co-founder's NewsReports from the spot, then). And it includes the European Court of Human Rights, whose Judgements are Legaly Binding, and to which EU itself should normaly accede, according to the Lisbon Treaty. 

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