Last week, the deal between Turkey and the European Union meant to address the refugee crisis came into effect. Under the agreement, refugees who arrive in Greece may be sent back to Turkey, who, despite its policy of only granting refugee status to Europeans, will receive $3.3 billion in aid and the “unfreezing” of its EU membership bid.

The deal’s ratification implies that Europe will turn a blind eye to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ongoing offensive against the Kurds and their allies within the country.

The costs of this approach were demonstrated most painfully last year when a suicide bombing took the lives of thirty-one activists in Suruç. It is widely argued that Erdoğan’s government tolerated this attack, and others, in order to instill fear in his political opposition.