13/06/2025 – 03/07/2025

  • On July 2nd, Commissioner Magnus Brunner travelled to Istanbul for the third High-Level Dialogue on migration and security. Topics discussed included, among others: “legal” migration, visa policy, “efforts” to combat migration, “return and readmission,” and cooperation with EU agencies. 
  • On June 27th4 Turkish border guards were sentenced to life imprisonment after torturing two Syrian migrants in March 2023. Both people died as a result of heavy beatings and after being forced to swallow oil.