On Friday 11 October, the European Commission called on Turkey to investigate allegations made the same day by the Lighthouse Report media consortium accusing the EU of giving Turkey funds to finance a vast network of centres for deporting migrants to Syria and Afghanistan.
The EU has spent at least €213 million on deportation centres in Turkey since 2007, the report says, and 25 former detainees in these centres said they had been forced or pressured to sign voluntary repatriation...