(Series Information) European Papers - A Journal on Law and Integration, 2016 1(3), 1195-1203 | European Forum Insight of 22 December 2016 | (Table of Contents) I. Summary of the EU-Turkey Deal - II. Summary of the Law on Forced Returns - III. Violation of, or Consistency with, International Law? - III.1. EU's Presumption of Turkey as a "Safe Third Country" - III.2 Turkey is Not Part of the EU - III.3. Poor Record of Asylum Procedures - IV. Importance of Addressing the Current Situation - V. Implications and Conclusion. | (Abstract) This article examines whether the European Union-Turkey deal violates or adheres to international law. In particular, the article examines Turkey as a "safe third country" and seeing whether Turkey complies with the principle of non-refoulement. The article argues that the EU-Turkey deal violates international law in a number of ways: first, EU presumes Turkey to be a "safe third country", where it is assumed that asylum claimants and refugees are able to apply for international protection. Second, Turkey is not part of the EU, and thus, EU laws do not apply to Turkey, so that procedural safeguards that are in place within the EU are not applicable to Turkey, so that in instances where the guarantees to the right to life and prohibition against torture are denied, it will be a direct violation of the principle of non-refoulement in the human rights context. Third, Turkey does not have a good record of according asylum claimants and refugees proper access to asylum procedures and does not have proper domestic mechanisms in place to ensure substantive and procedural protections for asylum claimants and refugees.