Merkel asked Erdogan to contain refugee outflux through Turkey. Very hard. Refugees in Turkey have no work permit or path to citizenship. +
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The camps in Turkey are well run as these things go, but they are refugee camps. People were hoping to go back, but they lost hope. +
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Without work permit or citizenship path in Turkey, and no hope of going back to Syria, it will be very hard to keep them in Turkey. +
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Aegean sea border with Greece narrow & long. Military tried patrolling it to catch dissidents escaping after 80 coup. They failed. Not easy.
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Sadly, I don't see a path to citizenship or work permit for refugees in Turkey either, due to political polarization and growing conflict.
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Rich EU countries panic over few hundred thousand while already troubled & poorer Turkey has two million+. "Just keep them" won't work.
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What would work: ending the Syrian conflict AND a massive influx of development funds. Otherwise, they will risk everything to leave.
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So Turkey can't seal all sea borders (just check a map). It's possible, I suppose, to lock all refugees up in camps. Is that the ask?
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OTOH, does anyone see this EU letting 70 mil Turkish citizens move without visas, etc.? Don't see how Merkel or Erdogan deliver this deal.
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Worse, things aren't as bad as they can get. Turkey's growing internal conflict and polarization threatens to make things much worse.
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Even as a stable country doing okay, Turkey couldn't absorb millions by itself. Now with increased conflict especially in border regions?
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Here's a blog post explaining the legal status (and conundrum) of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Helps explain outflux.http://thedisorderofthings.com/2015/09/03/the-status-of-syrian-nationals-residing-in-turkey/ …
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