Voices of Culture - Statement on the EU-Turkey deal

Border Crossings strongly supports the following statement:

“We the undersigned join the Council of Europe and other international human rights NGOs in denouncing the EU/Turkey Agreement of 18 March 2016, as illegal under European and international law.   We call on the EU, the EP but especially our own Member State governments to make the strongest active efforts in the shortest possible time frame to honour the values that the EU upholds and to construct a policy and programme that can make Europeans proud rather than ashamed.”

The following members of the Voices of Culture Platform have co-signed this statement:

- ArtReach Consultants Ltd, ArtReach Events Ltd

- Border Crossings

- Cirkor/Cirkus Sweden

- Culture Action Europe

- European Music Council

- IETM

- Teatro dell’Argine

- Vooruit Arts Center in Ghent

- Arts Rights Justice, represented by the following members:

Arterial Network

European Off Networks EON

Siyah Bant

ITI Action Committee for Artists Rights

Center for Art and Politics

LA Network for Social Transformation

Herwig Lewy

Thanasis Bagatzounis

Sabine Kock

Ann Mari Engel

MaryAnn DeVlieg