The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Greece illegally deported a Turkish woman in 2019.
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The decision at the court in Strasbourg, France could impact how Europe handles migrants at its borders, at a time when Greece and several European Union member states are seekingA Turkish woman — identified only by her initials A.R.E. — was awarded damages of 20,000 euros after the court ruled that she had been improperly expelled in 2019 after crossing the Greek-Turkish border, having been presented no opportunity to make an asylum claim.
Citing a lack of evidence, the court rejected a second claim made by an Afghan man, who said he had been illegally returned to Turkey from the Greek island of Samos in 2020 when he was 15. The U.N. refugee agency has urged Greece to more thoroughly investigate multiple pushback allegations, while several major human rights groups have described the alleged irregular deportations as a systematic practice.
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