Situation of Readmitted Migrants and Refugees from Greece to Turkey under the EU-Turkey Statement

After intensive negotiations between EU member states and Turkey between November 2015 and March 2016, EU and Turkey released a Statement on March 18, 2016 indicating their willingness to increase the cooperation to stop irregular migration to Europe. The EU-Turkey Statement and its nature is widely discussed among the general public as well as scholars and policy makers. Since the start of the implementation of the Statement provisions, several researches were conducted and reports were published on the conditions of migrants and refugees in Greece. However, little is known about the conditions of the migrants and refuges who were readmitted from Greece to Turkey after the EU-Turkey Statement. To fill this gap of knowledge from the field and have a better understanding of the effects of the Statement, Orcun Ulusoy from the Amsterdam Centre of Migration and Refugee Law of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam conducted a research in the field. The research was funded by the Dutch Refugee Council. The report, based on the findings of the research, is published within the Migration Law Series: Situation of Readmitted Migrants and Refugees from Greece to Turkey under the EU-Turkey Statement