{"id":203497,"date":"2020-03-07T07:20:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T07:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203497"},"modified":"2020-03-10T08:06:52","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T08:06:52","slug":"turkey-is-forcibly-transporting-migrants-to-the-greek-border-pushing-them-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203497","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Is Forcibly Transporting Migrants to the Greek Border, Pushing Them Across"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Anti Empire \u2013 March 5, 2020<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_203498\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-203498\" class=\"wp-image-203498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Migrants-clamber-aboard-buses-in-Istanbuls-Vatan-Street.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Migrants-clamber-aboard-buses-in-Istanbuls-Vatan-Street.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Migrants-clamber-aboard-buses-in-Istanbuls-Vatan-Street-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-203498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Migrants clamber aboard buses in Istanbul&#8217;s Vatan Street. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Around 300 migrants from Ankara\u2019s Akyurt Repatriation Center were transported to the border against their will on Feb. 29, said Sad\u0131k Onur Gelbal, the chair of the Ankara Bar Association\u2019s Migrant Rights Center on March 4.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">While members of the rights center weren\u2019t allowed into the repatriation center for inspection, lawyers who entered it to meet with their clients witnessed the refugees being forced to travel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWe were informed by colleagues who witnessed it first hand that on the night of February 29, migrants<strong> were forced onto buses and involuntarily transported to the border,\u201d<\/strong> Gelbal said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The attorney told Gelbal<strong> their client had been forced to depart even though they had an ongoing lawsuit in Ankara<\/strong>. He added that they weren\u2019t able to prevent the migration management officials from transporting them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>\u201cThe migration management officials emptied out the repatriation center with six buses,\u201d<\/strong> Gelbal said. \u201cA migrant who is still in there said that there are only seven people remaining there who are resisting being transported.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Turkey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Turkey<\/a> deploys 1000 special police units to Greek border to prevent illegal pushbacks, Interior Minister Soylu says <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zKjm7jY3tx\">pic.twitter.com\/zKjm7jY3tx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EHA News (@eha_news) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eha_news\/status\/1235500963957477377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Bar member Ebru Be\u015fe said that one of their coworkers was kept from meeting with their client and was surprised by what they saw at the center.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWhen they went to make an official complaint about the meeting they missed, they saw that the whole center was empty,\u201d Be\u015fe noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Another attorney of the bar who wished to remain anonymous told Gelbal that<strong> they received a call from a client in the middle of the night on Feb. 29, telling them \u201cthey\u2019re taking me away by force.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cWhen we went there that night, no officials came to talk to us,\u201d said the attorney, \u201cAccording to the migrants, some six or seven buses carrying 250 to 300 people left that night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?token=saPyccecVcPLINQJXmO67fyCtFlDcOCLVdnjGZKUYs-MuMRkPiJ28dt5WvztXb1OxLd7PG&amp;country.x=US&amp;locale.x=US\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-175417 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2002\/10\/donate-pp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duvarenglish.com\/human-rights\/2020\/03\/04\/refugees-forcibly-transported-to-border-ankara-bar-association-claims\/\">Original source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Ankara\u2019s Migrant Rights Center, says migrants are being forced to travel to the Greek border against their will<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203497"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203545,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203497\/revisions\/203545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}