1. no persecution, no torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, no threat of violence, no armed conflict. In other words, it is presumed that a 'safe country of origin' is a country where its own citizens are generally not persecuted. The citizens of these countries will still have the right to claim asylum, but their claims will be fast-tracked, speeding up the asylum processing and dissuading purely economic migrants;A country of origin is considered safe and therefore it is presumed that it has a democratic system and generally and consistently
2. Merkel backs multi-billion euro refugee package for Turkey;Briefing: The EU refugee deal with Turkey
3. turkey-eu-enlargement-programme-2012-errc-report