Members of the European Parliament have said, now that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has effectively sacked his Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, the EU-Turkey deal is now looking to be “a huge error of judgement by the European Commission.”

It was the Europe-friendly Davutoglu who brokered the deal with the EU so that “irregular migrants” from Greece would be relocated back to Turkey in returns — on a one-for-one basis — for Syrian refugees being sent from Turkey to EU member states. Critics — including the UN refugee agency UNHCR — say the deal is either immoral or illegal as the ‘hotspots’ have become detention centers. They also say Turkey is not a ‘safe country’ for migrants to be returned to, under the Geneva Convention.

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