On 19 June, Michael Spindelegger, ICMPD Director General, attended the Antalya Diplomacy Forum and took part in the high-level panel “Humanitarian Approach towards Refugees and Migrants”. On the panel, he was joined by Mr Antonio Vitorino (IOM Director General), Dr. Kerem Kinik (Red Crescent/IFRC) and Dr. Savaş Ünlü (Director DGMM Turkey). Andrea Sanke moderated the panel.
Countries
Türkiye
Status
Completed
Duration
July 2016
to
March 2017
Donors
UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Implementing Agency
ICMPD
Objective:
To support the DGMM in fulfilling the requirements under the EU-Turkey Readmission Agreement by training approximately 100 DGMM staff members.
Summary:
Turkey and the EU have been working in partnership to manage the present migration crisis. As a result of this dialogue, the EU and Turkey have concluded a Readmission Agreement (the Agreement) and ratified accordingly. The DGMM is the main partner on the Turkish side responsible for the implementation of said agreement and for processing the individual readmission requests both for Turkish citizens as well as third country nationals.
The READMIC project has foreseen series of trainings for the new staff of DGMM, whom will be engaged in processing the specific readmission requests. The trainings focused on the readmission process in general as well as ensured specific trainings on the requirements deriving from the Agreement and the implementing protocols. Training of the new staff, providing them with a general understanding of the requirements which Turkey has to meet under the Agreement as well as providing them with the specific knowledge on the manner of dealing with the individual requests has strengthened DGMM’s operational capacity to fulfill the requirements under the above agreement.