"Turkey does not want to become the biggest refugee camp in the world" said the Turkish minister for European Affairs, Egemen Bagis, as Turkey is facing steady pressures emanating from Greece and the EU according to which Turkey does not fight efficiently enough against illegal immigration. Greece has indeed to deal with a preoccupying influx of migrants, which, according to Athens, is responsible for the burst of far right extremism and an increase in racist actions against foreigners. One of Greece's main grievances is regarding the too seldom-implemented readmission agreement signed with Ankara in 2001. Out of 65.000 requests of explusion of people who had illegally immigrated, Turkey is said to have accepted only 2.270. But this statistic does not take into account the out-of-procedure escortings back to the borders operated at night by Greek authorities on the coasts of the Egean sea or the Evros river: sunk boats, passengers thrown overboard or explused without having had the possibility of applying for sanctuary. Testimonies are numerous about those blunders, which are denounced by humanitarian organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières or Human Rights Watch. EU commissioner responsible for justice, freedom and security, Jacques Barrot, is wishing to allocate pre-accession funds to Ankara as soon as possible in order to reinforce Turkish control on its boundaries. "The European Union is asking us to pay for the consequences of a hardening in its migration policy" is declaring the director of a detention centre in Istanbul. Full Le Monde's article here.