STOP ILLEGAL DEPORTATIONS OF ERITREAN REFUGEES FROM TURKEY
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PRE-WRITTEN EMAIL TO RESPONSIBLE MINISTRY
Target of campaign: Presidency of Migration Management,Director Atilla Toros
To:
Subject:
Stop deportation of Eritrean nationals from Turkey!
Body:
Dear Mr Atilla Toros,
I write to express my concern about the authorities' plans to deport Eritrean nationals who are arbitrarily detained at Aydin Removal Centre. In the past months, Turkey has deported around 300 Eritrean nationals to Eritrea and now detained Eritreans at Aydin have alerted their family members that authorities are preparing to deport them as well.
According to international law, no state can return individuals to a place where they risk persecution, torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or any other human rights violations. Such violations against forcibly returned Eritreans are well documented by human rights organisations. The United Nations says they are “often detained upon arrival to Eritrea, questioned, tortured, held in extremely punitive conditions and disappeared”.
I urge you to immediately halt the deportation of Eritrean nationals, release them and grant them access to seek international protection status in Turkey. Pending their release, ensure that they are held in conditions meeting international standards on the treatment of prisoners.
Right now, Turkey is deporting large numbers of Eritrean refugees back to Eritrea.
These deportations are illegal.
According to international law, no state can return individuals to a place where they risk persecution, torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or any other human rights violations. Such violations against forcibly returned Eritreans are well documented by human rights organisations (the principle of non-refoulement). The United Nations says they are “often detained upon arrival to Eritrea, questioned, tortured, held in extremely punitive conditions and disappeared”.
This is why these deportations are always stopped when challenged legally or by the public and civil society. But sometimes states do it quietly and without giving refugees the chance to challenge the decision. This is what Turkey is doing now.
According to relatives of forcibly returned Eritreans, around 180 people were deported last week. Most of them are now detained at Adi Abeto prison. About 100 individuals have been deported in the months before that, their relatives say. Now, Eritrean refugees detained in Turkey have alerted their family members via phone calls and letters that authorities are preparing to deport them as well and that it can happen any time now.
We need to come together and pressure Turkey to stop these deportations and save the Eritrean refugees from the fate that awaits them if they have to return.
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