TheCommonSenseInitiative

A group of Istanbul-based activists, writers, journalists and artists working to support migrants and refugees in Turkey.

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

Justice for Nasibe Şemsai! Iranian anti-hijab activist Nasibe Şemsai is reportedly being held in a deportation center in Edirne, Turkey and may be deported back to Iran next week. #NasibeSemsaiyeSesOl #nomoredeportations

[▶️ Mülteci Medyası @multecimedyasi]

İranlı zorunlu örtünme karşıtı aktivist Nasibe Şemsai, iki haftadır Edirne'deki geri gönderme merkezinde tutuluyor.

#Mülteci Şemsai'nin önümüzdeki hafta İran'a sınır dışı edilmesi bekleniyor!

#NasibeSemsaiyeSesOl

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

The police in #Adana have shot dead a Syrian refugee who was between 17 and 19 years old for breaking coronavirus curfew to go to work. #AliyiÖldürenlerNerde #AliİcinAdaletİstiyoruz #Turkey https://t.co/W1NjBqPihG

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

We are doing a project delivering baby supply packages to families in need living on the Asian side of Istanbul with a child age 0-4. If you are in that situation, please fill out the below form and if you qualify we will deliver the package to your home. https://t.co/5KqFsVEkGA

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

Turkish Version:

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

Over the past few weeks, we've had reports of #migrants, particularly those who went to the Greek border, receiving #deportation orders from the Turkish authorities. To support people in this situation, we teamed up with #Turkish migration lawyers to produce this guideline.

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

Pashto Version:

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

Together with @ihhinsaniyardim, over the past 3 days as part of our Sepedi Initiative we delivered 400 additional #food baskets to vulnerable #migrant families struggling during the #covi̇d19 pandemic. Thank you to all of our volunteers who made it happen! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 #itscommonsense

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

We have had multiple confirmed reports over the past few days of #migrants being transferred against from the quarantine camps they were in for the last 14 days to beaches, fields, or empty bus stations around #Izmir, on the #Turkish coast with #Greece.

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

For #migrants at risk of #deportation in #Turkey: you can receive free legal advice by calling this association (several languages spoken).

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

The number of boats (to #Greece) could grow quickly. The Turkish authorities want to empty all internment camps (9 total), according to the Interior Ministry. During this week, the #refugees are to be removed. https://t.co/gr1tPDw9Yr

[Antonis Repanas @AntonisRepanas]

The #Drama of #refugees continues. #Turkish authorities are taking them from the #camps by buses and leave them in places near the #coast but without any other information about their situation.

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

More reports of #migrants being separated by nationality and bussed from quarantine camps to Turkish beaches, fields, and abandoned bus stations near #Izmir. They have no food, water, shelter, or permission to travel and police continue to push them to cross the sea to #Greece.

[Aegean Boat Report @ABoatReport]

Illegal deportations and pushbacks to #Turkey ordered by #Greek govt, executed by Greek coast guard.

In the last weeks, at least 9 incidents of people being found drifting in the sea, in life rafts without propellants, have been reported.

More info: https://t.co/hxgiSXVsoa

[Aegean Boat Report @ABoatReport]

Cases of illegal deportation of #refugees from the #Greek islands to #Turkey are on the rise and perverse new methods are being used, endangering the lives of dozens of people.

https://t.co/T22mXXuY3x

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

Multiple reports of the migrants from #Edirne in #quarantine camps due to coronavirus now been forced to sign #deportation papers, driven to beaches bordering #Greece by Turkish police, and told to find their way to Greece (with no money/possessions).
https://t.co/EkdnG9fgP4

[TheCommonSenseInitiative @CSinIstanbul]

We have reports that at least one bus of #migrants dropped off on the coast of #Turkey with #deportation papers and told to find their way to #Greece were picked up by police, and put on a bus to #İstanbul during the 48-hour #lockdown.

[Moving Europe @MovingEurope]

The people in the seven buses were brought to a #detention camp in #Izmir. #Turkey

[Antonis Repanas @AntonisRepanas]

#refugees from #Turkish #Camps are being brought to the #coast. Opposite of #Scala #Sykamnias #Lesvos. They arrived there before 1 hour