Joint Press Release
Safe Third Country (10)
The institutionalisation of the concept of the “safe third country” is a central tool used by Greece and the EU to shirk their responsibility for protection, serving as a pretext for the mass rejection of asylum applications – a policy that shifts responsibility for protection onto countries without substantive rights guarantees, driving thousands of refugees into legal limbo and a state of permanent insecurity. Rulings by the Greek Council of State have found this practice unlawful, while following the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum, this policy is being expanded.
Αίτηση ακύρωσης στο Συμβούλιο της Επικρατείας
Joint Statement. RSA and GCR
27 MAR 2025
The Council of State annuls the designation of Turkey as a ‘safe third country’ for asylum seekers
JOINT STATEMENT by the organizations that filed the annulment application
CJEU's judgment of major importance
On Thursday 14/32024, hearing before the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, regarding Turkey as a "safe third country"
As European role model it represents a frontal attack on international refugee protection
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Legal Note: UNHCR has Failed to Stand Up for Refugee Rights During Crucial EU-Turkey Deal Judgment
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18 MAR 2026
Ten years after the EU-Turkey Deal: Standing against agreements with third countries
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Ministry of Migration and Asylum’s persistence on Turkey’s characterisation as a “Safe Third Country” for refugees returns to the Council of State
14 APR 2025
New designation of Türkiye as a “safe third country” for refugees in defiant contempt of the Greek Council of State’s ruling
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The Council of State annuls the designation of Turkey as a ‘safe third country’ for asylum seekers
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CJEU ruling on the concept of “safe third country”
13 MAR 2024
Hearing before the Court of Justice of the European Union on Thursday 14 March on the preliminary questions of the Greek Council of State regarding Turkey as a “safe third country”
16 MAR 2023
The EU-Turkey deal is collapsing 7 years after its signing
18 MAR 2019
Three years of the toxic EU-Turkey ‘deal’
17 MAR 2018
#StopTheToxicDeal TURKEY AS A “SAFE THIRD COUNTRY”
20 OCT 2017
Legal Note: UNHCR has Failed to Stand Up for Refugee Rights During Crucial EU-Turkey Deal Judgment
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