土耳其遣返难民回到叙利亚

AS IT IS 2016-04-04 Claim: Turkey Sending Refugees² Back to Syria 土耳其遣返难民回到叙利亚

Amnesty International says Turkey has been forcing about 100 refugees back to Syria every day since January.

The rights group recently released a report that said many people in southern Turkey know about the forced removals. The report also strongly criticized the refugee¹ agreement reached last month between Turkey and the European Union.

John Dalhuisen is the European and Central Asian director for the group. He said “in their desperation to seal their borders, EU leaders have willfully ignored the simplest of facts: Turkey is not a safe country for Syrian refugees and is getting less safe by the day.”

He said the deal to return Syrian refugees and others from Greece to Turkey can only be carried out with the “hardest of hearts” and a “disregard³ for international law.”

Amnesty says children and a woman who was to give birth in a month are among those who have been forced to return to Syria.

Turkey has not answered the report.

About three million Syrian refugees are in Turkey now. That is more than any other country in the area.

Turkey and the EU agreed that war refugees who arrive in Greece would be sent to Turkey after their requests for asylum⁴ are considered. Under the deal, for every Syrian sent to Turkey, one refugee would be settled in a European Union country.

In exchange, the EU would help pay the cost of caring for the refugees. Also, Turkish citizens would be able to travel to EU countries without visas. The EU also agreed to quickly consider Turkey’s request to join the organization.

The agreement was reached to help deal with the worst refugee crisis⁵ in Europe since World War II. But human rights groups say the deal is illegal. They criticize the way the agreement deals with people trying to escape war, poverty and terrorism.

On Friday, the UN refugee agency said the agreement should not be put into place until a process is created to protect refugees. And it said conditions in Greece and Turkey are worsening.

Words in This Story

seal – v. to prevent someone from going into or through (an area or place)

disregard – n. the act of ignoring something or treating something as unimportant⁶

asylum – n. protection given by a government to someone who has left another country in order to escape being harmed

1 refugee   

n.难民，流亡者

参考例句：

• The refugee was condemned to a life of wandering.这个难民注定要过流浪的生活。
• The refugee is suffering for want of food and medical supplies.难民苦于缺少食物和医药用品。

2 refugees   

n.避难者，难民( refugee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The UN has begun making airdrops of food to refugees. 联合国已开始向难民空投食物。
• They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. 他们宣称自己是政治难民，不是经济移民。

3 disregard   

vt.不理会，漠视；n.忽视，漠视

参考例句：

• You can't just disregard the security problem!你可不能忽视安全问题！
• He did it in disregard of any advice.他不顾一切劝告做了这件事。

4 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

5 crisis   

n.危机，危急关头，决定性时刻，关键阶段

参考例句：

• He had proved that he could be relied on in a crisis.他已表明，在紧要关头他是可以信赖的。
• The topic today centers about the crisis in the Middle East.今天课题的中心是中东危机。

6 unimportant   

adj.不重要的，无意义的

参考例句：

• Let's not quarrel about such unimportant matters.我们不要为这些小事争吵了。
• Money seems unimportant when sets beside the joys of family life.与天伦之乐相比，金钱显得微不足道。