VOA慢速英语：土耳其质疑欧盟对难民问题的处理
A small group of Turkish activists welcomed the first deported migrants as they arrived at the Turkish port of Dikili. However, many Turks are questioning whether their country can or should absorb them.
The deportees from Pakistan and other countries arrived in Turkey from Greece this week. They have been taken from the docks where, they disembarked, and were brought to a center 500 kilometers away.
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| Migrants disembark from a Turkish coastguard boat after a failed attempt at crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos, in the Turkish coastal town of Dikili, Turkey, April 6, 2016. |
Turkey is expecting to receive another group of 200 migrants from Greece onFriday. The move is part of a deal reached in March between the EU andTurkey to ease Europe’s migrant crisis.
The deal with the EU offers a list of incentives for Turkey. It includes billionsof dollars in aid and the possibility of travel to Europe without a visa forTurkish citizens. Also, efforts for Turkey to join the EU are to restart. However, some Turks are condemning the deal. They say it does little toincrease their long-sought access to Europe.
The agreement is seen as a good opportunity for Turkey’s President, RecepTayyip Erdogan. He is facing criticism for his government’s offensive against Kurdish separatists in Turkey’s southeast and its crackdown on the media.
Questions about the deal continue
Under the deal reached in March, Turkey will receive more than $3 billion inaid to take care of the migrants. For every migrant returned, Turkey sendsone Syrian refugee to the EU.
Greece and the EU were to deport all migrants who arrived on Greek soil afterMarch 20. Greece reports that between 300 and 500 people continue to reachits shores each day. But that number is less than before the agreement went into effect.
Officials say more than 400 people have died over the past year while trying to make the short, but dangerous, crossing between Turkey and some Greek islands.
In Izmir, Turkey’s third largest city, many migrants found acceptance. Today,parks and areas once filled with migrants are now empty. Some in the citymiss their business.
“They do no harm to us, no harm at all. On the contrary, the business I did last year was double than this year,” Aydogan Kirisci, a spice vendor told VOA.
Not all Turks are as ready to accept the migrants. Concern about hosting them in large numbers has grown. That is especially the case after a series of deadly terrorist attacks in the country recently.
Even supporters of the deal for Turkey to take in migrants share the concern.
In Izmir’s city center, Turkish travelers form a long line in front of a private business that processes visas for Turks who want to visit EU countries. Oneof them, who identified himself only as Emre, said the possibility of havingvisa-free travel to the EU is, for him, not enough to justify the agreement.Some wonder how long the migrants will stay.
“This is the main thing, that we don’t know what (is) going to happen because we don’t know those people and where they will live and if they (are given) a place anywhere in Turkey if it is a secured place,” he told VOA.
Turkey’s government is ensuring that the deported migrants remain out ofsight. Experts say this is meant to limit tensions. The government says Syrians will be placed in refugee camps and others will be sent to their home countries.
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Words in This Story
absorb – v. to take in, to bring in
disembarked - v. to leave or get off of something, like a ship or airplane
incentives – n. something meant to encourage a person or group to takesome action or agree to some plan
crackdown – n. a forceful attempt to stop people from doing something that is not permitted by authorities
on the contrary – phrase, shows that the following sentence describessomething that is the opposite of the one that came before
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