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'Repatriation' of Syrians in Turkey needs EU action

Topic
Refugees
Country/Region
EU Turkey Syria

06 November 2019

""I was deported with about 35 Syrians on a large bus. They handcuffed us and…they beat some of the men on the bus with truncheons when they asked to go to the toilet or for water. We all spoke with each other [and] no one wanted to go back to Syria."

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'Repatriation' of Syrians in Turkey needs EU action (euobserver, link):

"Do those sound like the words of refugees who freely signed papers asking Turkey to return them to an active conflict zone in northern Syria?"

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