Pushed Back - refoulement of refugees at the Greek-Turkish land and sea border

Pushed Back - refoulement of refugees at the Greek-Turkish land and sea border

On the Greek-Turkish land border refugees are systematically refouled with brutal, shocking and systematic violations of human rights: ‘When they left us in the Turkish waters they made waves again and six of us – all men - fell into the sea. The Greeks saw that, but they didn’t help, they just left.’ PRO ASYL documents thesesystematic pushback in the report "Pushed Back - systematic human rights violations against refugees in the aegean sea and the greek-turkish land border". With few exceptions, all documented pushback took place in the area of ​​operations of Frontex. PRO ASYL raises the question of the involvement of Frontex on the human rights violations and calls: Frontex must end its operations in Greece.

Report: http://www.proasyl.de/fileadmin/fm-dam/l_EU_Fluechtlingspolitik/pushed_back_web_01.pdf
Summary (in German): http://www.proasyl.de/fileadmin/fm-dam/NEWS/2013/Summary_Faelle_Deutsch_Pushed_Back.pdf