FRONTIER EUROPE Human rights abuses on Greece’s border with Turkey 33 Get&InstranetImage=1521616&SecMode=1&DocId=1501516&Usage=2. UN General Assembly, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau: Addendum – Turkey, 17 April 2013, Paragraphs 53 and 60, available at: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/23/46/Add.2. 27 Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Turkey, Syrian Refugees in Turkey: Briefing Note, 16 November 2012, page7, available at: http://www.hyd.org.tr/staticfiles/files/20121116_hca_turkey_briefingnotesyrianrefugees.pdf, and Amnesty International, Stranded: Refugees in Turkey denied protection (Index: EUR 44/001/2009), 22 April 2009, available at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR44/001/2009. 28 29 For detailed information on the geographical limitation clause in the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and Turkey’s asylum system, see Amnesty International, Stranded: Refugees in Turkey denied protection (Index: EUR 44/001/2009), 22 April 2009, available at: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR44/001/2009 Also see, Council of Europe, Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to Turkey on 28 June-3 July 2009, 1 October 2009, available at: https://wcd.coe.int/com.instranet.InstraServlet?Index=no&command=com.instranet.CmdBlob Get&InstranetImage=1521616&SecMode=1&DocId=1501516&Usage=2. 30 UN General Assembly, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau: Addendum – Turkey, 17 April 2013, Paragraphs 65 and 69, available at: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/23/46/Add.2. Council of Europe, Report by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, following his visit to Turkey on 28 June-3 July 2009, 1 October 2009, para. 51, 53, and 55, available at: https://wcd.coe.int/com.instranet.InstraServlet?Index=no&command=com.instranet.CmdBlob Get&InstranetImage=1521616&SecMode=1&DocId=1501516&Usage=2; Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly, Unsafe Haven: The Security Challenges Facing LGBT Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Turkey, June 2011, available at: http://www.hyd.org.tr/?pid=858 and UN General Assembly, Report of the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau: Addendum – Turkey, 17 April 2013, Paragraph 65, available at: http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/HRC/23/46/Add.2. 31 32 Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals. 33 Directive 2008/115/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on common standards and procedures in Member States for returning illegally staying third-country nationals. 34 Law 3907/2011 on the establishment of an Asylum Service and a Initial Reception Service, transposition into Greek legislation of the provisions of Directive 2008/115/EC, published in the Greek Government Gazette on 26 January 2011, Articles 30(5) and 30(6), and Law 3386/2005 on the Entry, Residence and Social Integration of Third Country Index: 25/008/2013 Amnesty International July 2013