“Not only Turkey but also throughout the EU they are seeing the refugees and migrants as cheap labor force, and they are sorting them through mechanisms such as the hotspots, the so-called "smart borders", so they can have those and how many needed for the profitability of the capital. The remaining will be crushed by the EU mechanisms against refugees,” Konstantinos Papadakis from the Communist Party of Greece said.
Turkey has repeatedly been accused of the selective approach to the refugees while implementing the refugee swaps stipulated in the EU-Turkish refugee deal. Papadakis said that in the current situation, Turkish bourgeoisie “is seeking to wrest the greatest possible exchanges, blackmailing through the control of the refugee flows.”
“The EU-Turkey Agreement not only did not solve any problem of the refugees and the peoples, on the contrary the rivalries are being exacerbated and the peoples will be the ones who will pay the bill once more,” Papadakis said.
In March, Brussels and Ankara agreed on a deal under which Turkey pledged to take back all undocumented migrants who arrive in the European Union through its territory in exchange for Syrian refugees accommodated in Turkey, on a one-for-one basis. In return, the 28-member bloc pledged to accelerate the Turkish EU accession bid and introduce a visa-free regime between Turkey and the Schengen Area.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently threatened to suspend the agreement on migration made with the European Union, if the bloc fails to proceed with the visa-free regime.
