The Ministry of Inside issued a written assertion on the allegations of Mitarakis, the Greek Minister of Immigration and Asylum.
Within the assertion, it was acknowledged that “Greece’s Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Notis Mitarakis, who’s ceaselessly on the agenda with inhuman practices in opposition to immigrants, this time engaged in a notion operation over {a photograph} of immigrants who had been left bare and whose the place and when it was not recognized.”
Within the assertion, it was acknowledged that the paperwork and visuals that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivered to the eye of the world public opinion by revealing the inhumane therapy of Greece on the United Nations Normal Meeting, put Greece in despair within the worldwide area. Greece, which confiscated all their belongings, together with their belongings, took the immigrants, their garments and sneakers, threw them into the ocean, injured them with sticks, injured them with electro-shock units, hit them with rubber bullets, put them on rubber boats or scrapped life rafts. It was emphasised that it aimed to cowl up illegal pushbacks.
The assertion famous:
“For years, these inhumane therapies and actions of Greece, that the rubber boats belonging to immigrants had been blown up, their engines had been dismantled, immigrants had been crushed and even fired upon at the price of killing them, have been revealed by each photos and worldwide studies. Simply final month, they had been despatched to Italy through Lebanon. He left the immigrants, together with infants and kids, to die, by blowing up a migrant boat making an attempt to cross to Istanbul and taking the property of the immigrants in it. After this inhumane habits, a 9-month-old child Asım and his 4-year-old brother Abdülvahap misplaced their lives. It’s seen that Greece, who couldn’t even reply, tried to accuse Turkey by slandering Turkey. The Greek authorities didn’t chorus from ascribing lies and slander to itself, because it ascribed homicide. Greece, regardless of the extreme stress within the worldwide public opinion as a result of these actions, got here again. By not taking any steps, it continues to commit human rights violations by way of each the European Conference on Human Rights, the UN Common Declaration of Human Rights and the 1951 Geneva Conference.
Within the assertion, it was emphasised that there are violations of rights, particularly within the context of the suitable to life and the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment, and that using weapons, violence and ill-treatment with out discrimination of ladies and kids, the taking of garments and cash of foreigners who need to enter the nation, the unlawful confiscation of their valuables. It was underlined that it was in opposition to worldwide legislation.
“WE CALL US TO STOP INHUMAN PRACTICES”
Referring to the report of the European Union Anti-Corruption Workplace (OLAF), which was shared by varied worldwide businesses and media organs, the assertion mentioned, “The European Union Border and Coast Guard Company FRONTEX’s senior officers ‘cowl up, not examine or applicable and It’s coincidental that the Greek Minister faked this report and his nation’s violations within the Aegean Sea and its land borders, after it was disclosed that he dedicated critical abuses and irregularities by not correctly addressing the difficulty, and that he shared inaccurate and biased data with EU establishments. We do not think about it.” statements had been included.
Whereas the investigations and inspections concerning push-backs proceed, it’s unacceptable to dismiss the Govt Director of FRONTEX, the truth that Mitarakis remains to be in workplace and his unfounded accusations of inserting Turkey underneath suspicion are unacceptable, the assertion mentioned:
“On account of the push-back practices of Greece, which didn’t again down from its inhumane therapy, a complete of 61,737 immigrants have been pushed again since 2020, of which 46,840 had been within the Aegean Sea and 14,897 had been on the Greek land border. On account of the pushing, 152 migrants misplaced their lives and 200 had been injured.Once we take a look at the 12 months 2022, a complete of 26,363 migrants had been pushed again, of which 21,770 had been within the Aegean Sea and 4,593 had been on the Greek land border. A complete of 59 immigrants misplaced their lives, of which 1 within the Aegean Sea and 38 on the land border with Greece. Once more in these pushbacks, a complete of 54 immigrants had been injured, 5 within the Aegean Sea and 49 on the land border with Greece.
We invite Greece, which has not but accounted for the drowned infants within the Aegean, to desert its inhumane practices in opposition to immigrants and its immigration coverage that resulted in deaths. We strongly reject even bringing the identify of Turkey, which has been pursuing its humanitarian insurance policies primarily based on worldwide guidelines for irregular migrants with none discrimination for years, to be introduced aspect by aspect with Greece, which is well-known to the entire world for the inhumane therapy it has utilized to immigrants for years.”
The assertion additionally included images of immigrants who misplaced their lives and had been injured on account of Greece’s ill-treatment.