appeals pending by the end of the year reached 1,601. Similarly to previous years, it is worth noting that the statistics provided by the Ministry of Migration and Asylum continue to show inconsistencies.789 Relative data for 2023 have not been provided by the MoMA, even though GCR has requested it on a yearly basis. Instead, following the latest such request sent by GCR in January 2024, the MoMA replied by referring GCR to the Ministry’s website “and in particular at the link https://migration.gov.gr/statistika/ [where] the monthly newsletters are published, alongside relevant annexes, which include summary and detailed statistical data on the work of the First Reception Service, the Asylum Service and the Appeals Authority […]”790. Yet a closer look at the public sources referred by the MoMA highlights the specific data is not available. Decisions under the JMD 42799/2021 During 2022, 2.709 decisions were issued under the JMD 42799/2021 from the Appeals Committee. Out of these decisions, 2.696 applications of Syrians, Afghans, Somalis, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis nationals, were deemed “inadmissible” (Afghanistan: 1.113, Bangladesh: 345, Pakistan: 626, Somalia: 307, Syria: 305).791 Relative data for 2023 have not been provided by the MoMA other than those referred above, even though GCR has requested it on a yearly basis. Decisions of the Appeals Committees rejecting cases as inadmissible follow the line of reasoning of the Asylum Service to a great extent. Appeals Committees have continued to refrain from taking into consideration up-to-date and reliable sources of information concerning risks of inhuman or degrading treatment and refoulement facing individuals in Türkiye. Appeals Committees have also held that the designation of a third country as safe may be maintained, even in cases where the applicant invoked reports by international organisations reaching the opposite conclusion.792 Greek authorities come to the conclusion that applicants do not face a risk of refoulement in Türkiye on the ground that they had not already faced such treatment in the country prior to their arrival in Greece.793 Only in a few exceptions have IAC cited Türkiye’s practice of coercion of refugees into signing “voluntary return” forms.794 Furthermore, none of the Asylum Service and IAC decisions seen in 2023 refer to authoritative evidence on the current state and deficiencies of the Turkish asylum system, including a “20% rule” on registration of international and temporary protection claims in all provinces with a significant population of nonnationals, and removal of tens of thousands to countries such as Afghanistan and Syria. Almost none refer to the country’s “20% rule” on access to asylum procedures.795 789 790 791 792 793 794 795 RSA, The Greek asylum procedure in figures: most asylum seekers continue to qualify for international protection in 2021, available at: https://bit.ly/3qH3qeo, p. 9. MoMA, Analysis and Studies Office, Reply to GCR’s request for information for the preparation of the present 2023 Update of AIDA Country Report: Greece, received on 14 February 2024, protocol no. 55259). MoMA, Reply of the Ministry to the Greek Parliament, 156079/2023, 16 March 2023, available at: https://bit.ly/3JIy0y6, p. 12. 2nd IAC, 171515/2023, 23 March 2023, p. 7; 8th IAC, 583703/2022, 5 October 2022, p. 12; 511455/2022, 5 September 2022, p. 19; 237130/2022, 29 April 2022, p. 16; 161054/2022, 21 March 2022, p. 13; 142176/2022, 11 March 2022, para 9; 458313/2021, 15 December 2021, para 9; 11th IAC, 71895/2022, 8 February 2022, para 13; 67923/2022, 7 February 2022, para 9; 384227/2021, 15 November 2021, para 9; 2075/2021, 26 February 2021, para 11; 2727/2020, 9 April 2020, para 10; 13th IAC, IP/113682/2023, 13 September 2023, para 11; 22148/2023, 13 January 2023, para 8; 734754/2022, 7 December 2022, para 9; 14th IAC, IP/335367/2023, 6 December 2023, p. 18; 250567/2023, 3 May 2023, p. 24; 211179/2023, 11 April 2023, p. 24; 16th IAC, 85916/2023, 10 February 2023, para IV.4; 394674/2022, 7 July 2022, p. 7; 21st IAC, 710801/2022, 28 November 2022, pp. 9-10; 690292/2022, 18 November 2022, p. 8; 467020/2021, 20 December 2021, p. 10, as cited in ProAsyl and RSA, The concept of “Safe third country”. Legal standards and Implementation in the Greek Asylum System, February 2024, available at: https://bit.ly/44fR5jV, p. 10, note 29. For example, 3rd IAC, 47496/2022, 28 January 2022, para 15; 4th IAC, 204504/2023, 7 April 2023, pp. 1819; 79499/2023, 8 February 2023, para III.2; 6th IAC, IP312088/2023, 28 November 2023, para IV.5; IP/291367/2023, 21 November 2023, para IV.5; 11th IAC, IP/578/2023, 28 June 2023, pp. 24-25; 12th IAC, 168365/2023, 7 April 2023, p. 15; 14th IAC, IP/335367/2023, 6 December 2023, p. 21; 250567/2023, 3 May 2023, p. 26; 211179/2023, 11 April 2023, pp. 25-26. 10th IAC, 22083/2020, 28 April 2021, para 2; 12540/2020, para 4; 17th IAC, 292768/2023, 8 June 2023, para 3; 21st IAC, 398486/2021, 19 November 2021, p. 20, as cited in ProAsyl and RSA, “The concept of “Safe third country”. Legal standards and Implementation in the Greek Asylum System, February 2024, available at: https://bit.ly/44fR5jV, p.12,note 43. Exceptions include 4th IAC, 204504/2023, 7 April 2023, pp. 14 and 17; 12th IAC, 168365/2023, 22 March 2023, pp. 11 and 14; 15th IAC, IP/20208/2024, 10 January 2024, para 16, as cited in ProAsyl and RSA, “The 164