Refugees

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The Night Manager’s inaccurate depiction of refugee camps in Turkey

8 years 7 months ago

On 20 March 2016, the Night Manager, British-American television series, portrayed refugee camps in Turkey were as tents along a wayside with poor conditions.

Claim: Turkey expels Syrian refugees

8 years 7 months ago

On 1 April 2016, Amnesty International published an article on its website about last month’s EU – Turkey agreement on refugees, in which it is stipulated that Turkey will receive Syrian refugees from Greece and the EU will take Syrian refugees

Claim: AK Party government houses refugees in opposition towns

8 years 7 months ago

On 6 March 2016, Alev Scott wrote an article, which was published in Politico, in which she cited the claim that Turkey's ruling AK Party is “housing refugees in towns that vote for its rivals”.

Claim: Turkey forcibly expels Syrian refugees back to Syria

8 years 8 months ago

On 10 March 2016, Guy Verhofstadt published an article in The Guardian about a deal between the EU and Turkey on refugees.

Claim: Turkey’s refugee camps in terrible shape

8 years 8 months ago

On 15 February 2015, in the Guardian newspaper, Cihan Tugal published an article in which he claimed that Turkey opened its borders to Syrian refugees but didn’t do more to welcome them.

Claim: Turkey’s open door policy “illusion”

8 years 9 months ago

On 24 November 2015, an analysis titled Is Turkey’s ‘open door policy’ an illusion? was published on the Al Jazeera websit

Claim: Erdogan wants to get rid of Syrian refugees

8 years 10 months ago

On 13 January 2016, French newspaper Le Figaro published an interview of Dorothée Schmid, the Turkey correspondent for the French Institute of International Relations, about Turkey’s policy on Syria.