EU Helped Erdogan Win Election In Return For Halting Refugees

The EU signed a deal with Turkey to stem the flow of refugees after helping Erdogan secure an election victory.

teleSUR
By teleSUR

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened the European Union with “buses full of refugees” if they failed to finalize a lucrative deal with Turkey over the refugee crisis, according to a leaked transcript of a meeting between Erdogan and EU chiefs last year in which European leaders admit to aiding Erdogan's party secure victory in

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Sultanic Rites: Erdogan Threatens To Flood Europe With Refugees

The Turkish president has seized the opportunity presented by the migrant crisis to behave like a sultan who issues threats to Europe, German magazine Der Spiegel reported.

Sputnik News
By Sputnik News
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stands at the mausoleum of Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on Republic Day in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's threats to open the borders with Europe to millions of refugees and migrants unless Brussels accedes to his demands is proof that he is exploiting the crisis and blackmailing Europe, German magazine Der Spiegel reported. On Monday Greek website Euro2day published confidential EU documents that reveal

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Britain Is Deporting Thousands Of Unaccompanied Child Refugees To Afghanistan And Iraq

The latest figures also show 657 former child refugees have been returned to Iraq since 2007, including 22 last year and 38 in 2014 when IS began to take a grip on the region.

Maeve McClenaghan
By Maeve McClenaghan
Afghan refugee Rasoul Nazari, 15, holds his 10-month-old nephew Imran after crossing the border between Hungary and Austria in Nickelsdorf, Austria. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Thousands of young people who sought refuge in Britain as unaccompanied child asylum seekers have since been deported to war torn countries that are in part controlled by Islamic State, the Taliban or other repressive regimes, a Home Office minister has admitted. James Brokenshire said that over the past nine years 2,748 young people – many of

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A Plan Must Be Made For ‘Life After ISIS’ In The Middle East

In the Second World War, Allied leaders planned for the post-war world – a ‘United Nations’ – years before the conflict ended. We must do the same for the Middle East.

Robert Fisk
By Robert Fisk
Syrian refugee Eidah Hassoun, 36, sits with her children inside their tent at an informal tented settlement near the Syrian border on the outskirts of Mafraq, Jordan.

There are times in the Middle East when nightmares and delusions take the place of the real and growing tragedy which is consuming the Arab lands. More and more earnest are the calls for peace as more and more nations launch more and more air raids, from Kabul to the Mediterranean, and down through Sinai and Yemen and across to Libya. The bloodbath

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Germany Starts Confiscating Refugees’ Valuables; Denmark Finalizes Bill To Do Same

Germany’s southern states are confiscating refugees’ valuables in order to pay for their stay, according to local authorities. It comes as Denmark moves ahead with a plan to do the same, part of a controversial bill aimed at curbing asylum seekers’ rights.

RT
By RT
A Yazidi refugee family from Iraq cries while resting on the seashore shortly after arriving on a vessel from the Turkish coast to the northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015. About 5,000 migrants are reaching Europe each day along the so-called Balkan migrant route, stoking tensions among the countries along the migrant corridor including Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

"Cash holdings and valuables can be secured [by the authorities] if they are over €750 (US$810) and if the person has an outstanding bill, or is expected to have one,” Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann told Bild newspaper on Thursday. The government of Baden-Württemberg has implemented a stricter process, with police confiscating

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Shunned By The West, 10,000 Refugees Seek Asylum In Hong Kong

Behind Hong Kong’s glamorous facade, thousands of refugees quietly struggle to survive in one of the world’s most dynamic territories.

Zachary Senn
By Zachary Senn
A red taxi drives past tthe busy exterior of the Chungking Mansions in Hong Kong. These squalid, overcrowded towers house many of the territory's 10,000 asylum seekers. (Shadowproof / Zachary Senn)

Published in partnership with ShadowProof. The Chungking Mansions, where many of Hong Kong’s asylum seekers first land upon their arrival to the territory, are a place of brutality, thronging with desperately thin South Asian teenagers who look a decade older than their age, offering to sell you ‘something special’ around every corner — be it

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