Syrian refugees in Turkey face gross human rights violations

Despite receiving billions of dollars from the European Union to fund “humanitarian support” and “migration management,” Turkey is violating all international agreements by pursuing a policy of forced deportation against the Syrian refugees on its territory.

In this context, forcibly deported Syrians told ANHA agency that the Turkish authorities arrested them and took them to the border crossing points that separate Turkey from the areas occupied by its mercenaries in Syria, and forced them to cross.

According to treaties and customary international law, Turkey must protect the basic rights of all Syrians, and must not deport refugees who live and work in a city other than the one where their identities and temporary protection addresses are registered.

The citizen Sheerin Ibrahim Mahmoud, one of these deportees, who arrived at the Aoun al-Dadat crossing,she explained to ANHA correspondent: “I was staying with my family in Mardin, and when we traveled to Istanbul, the Turkish Gendarmes stopped us and took us to the police station although we have official papers.”

“They put us in small detention rooms with my children  and they seized all our belongings, including the medicines that I was carrying for my daughter who had a blood disease. They did not return it to us so that we would later be transferred to the city of Kilis. They did not allow us to buy food and milk for children, then they took us the city of Jarabulus after fingerprinting and taking photos for us" she added.

She made the point clear that “In Jarabulus, we were robbed and threatened, and then we rushed to get the quickest way to cross to the Autonomous Administration areas.”

According to the conventions relating to the status of refugees, “children may not be detained for reasons related to asylum,” and forced deportation is “a flagrant violation of human rights.”

The forcibly deported Hassan Hussein said: “I sought refuge in Turkey since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, but the Turkish Gendarmes arrested us some time and humiliated us. They did not give us water, we forced to drink unclean water.  During our deportation, we did not eat for two days until we arrived in Jarabulus.”

 "When we entered Jarabulus, the mercenaries forced us to pay $350. They also stole our mobile phones. We miraculously escaped from their hands to the Autonomous Administration's" Hassan Hussein added.

Since mid-2022, the Turkish state has been working to forcibly deport Syrian refugees to its- held areas in Syria in order to implement demographic change in those areas.

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