TY - JOUR T1 - Left to the Waves: The Perilous Reality of Migrant Pushbacks at Mediterranean Sea TT - Dalgalara Terk Edilenler: Ege Denizi'ndeki Geri İtmelerin Tehlikeli Gerçeği AU - Pouya, Jafar PY - 2025 DA - June Y2 - 2025 DO - 10.70045/mejrs.1685985 JF - Middle East Journal of Refugee Studies JO - MEJRS PB - İnsan Hak ve Hürriyetleri ve İnsani Yardım Vakfı WT - DergiPark SN - 2149-4398 SP - 68 EP - 87 VL - 10 IS - 1 LA - en AB - In recent years, the Aegean Sea has become the deadliest sea route for migrants and asylumseekers from North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. A ship capsized with 750 migrants onJune 14, 2023 in the Mediterranean Sea and sinking off the coast of Greece with 80 dead, 100rescued and 500 missing showed the depth of tragedy of Mediterranean Sea route for migrantsand pushbaks practice. The aim of this article is to investigate Pushbacks practice ın the AegeanSea which is the deadliest sea route for the mıgrants and asylum seekers. This article will alsoexamine the practice of pushbacks, which has contributed to an increase in deaths in theMediterranean. Pushbacks appear to have begun after the 2015 migration crisis, and evidenceconfirms that pushbacks were implemented deliberately in response to mass migration.Pushbacks include a variety of state measures aimed at forcing refugees and migrants to leavetheir territory while denying access to applicable legal and procedural frameworks. In some cases- migrants are forcibly returned from EU territorial waters to the open sea and leaving afloat inthe middle of Sea in a dangerous way by Greek Coast Guard and Frontex. Pushbacks areconsidered unlawful under international migration law and European migration policies.Türkiye has historically been a country of origin, transit and destination for migrants. At the sametime migrants and asylum seekers consider Türkiye as a transit country to reach Greece and Italyvia the Aegean Sea. KW - Pushbacks KW - Aegean Sea KW - Greece. KW - migrant KW - refugee N2 - Son yıllarda Ege Denizi, Kuzey Afrika, Orta Doğu ve Güney Asya'dan gelen göçmenler vesığınmacılar için en ölümcül deniz rotası haline gelmiştir. 14 Haziran 2023'te Akdeniz'de 750göçmen taşıyan bir geminin batması ve Yunanistan kıyılarında 80 kişinin ölümü, 100 kişininkurtarılması ve 500 kişinin kaybolması, Akdeniz göç rotasının trajedisinin boyutlarını ve geri itmeuygulamalarının vahametini gözler önüne sermiştir. Bu makalenin amacı, göçmenler vesığınmacılar için en tehlikeli deniz yolu olan Ege Denizi'ndeki geri itme uygulamalarınıincelemektir. Ayrıca, bu çalışma, Akdeniz'deki ölümlerin artmasına katkıda bulunan geri itmepratiklerini de ele alacaktır. Geri itmelerin, 2015 göç krizinin ardından sistematik olarakuygulanmaya başladığı ve kitlesel göç hareketlerine kasıtlı bir yanıt olarak hayata geçirildiğikanıtlanmaktadır.Geri itmeler, mültecilerin ve göçmenlerin ülke topraklarını terk etmeye zorlanmasını ve yasalprosedürlere erişimlerinin engellenmesini içeren çeşitli devlet uygulamalarından oluşmaktadır.Bazı durumlarda, Yunan Sahil Güvenliği ve Frontex tarafından göçmenler, AB karasularındanuluslararası denizlere zorla geri gönderilmekte ve deniz ortasında güvenliksiz bir şekilde terkedilmektedir. Bu uygulamalar, uluslararası göç hukuku ve Avrupa göç politikalarına aykırı olarakkabul edilmektedir.Türkiye, tarihsel olarak göçmenler için köken, transit ve hedef ülke konumundadır. Aynı zamanda,göçmenler ve sığınmacılar, Ege Denizi üzerinden Yunanistan ve İtalya'ya ulaşmak için Türkiye'yi bir transit ülke olarak kullanmaktadır. CR - AP. (2022, 5 30). 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