Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Ankara is opening the border with Europe to refugees from Syria.
“As of this morning, 18,000 migrants have crossed the Turkish-European border. And we will no longer close those doors, it will continue. We are not in a position to feed so many refugees,” he said during his speech In Istanbul on Saturday, February 29, as cited by Anadolu.
According to Erdogan, there are 3.7 million Syrian refugees in Turkey today.
The day before, the representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano said during a briefing that the agreement between Turkey and the EU on curbing illegal migration remains in force.
“Regarding the speculations over the migrant movement in Turkey, I want to emphasize that as of today there has not been any official communication from the Turkish side about changes in their policy with regards to migrants or asylum seekers. This was confirmed today in a statement of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” Stano said.
The Migration Agreement between Turkey and the EU, which was concluded in the spring of 2016, aims to limit the flow of mostly Syrian refugees through Turkey to Europe.
According to the agreement, between 2016 and 2019, the European Union transferred to Turkey about 6 billion euros for the accommodation of migrants, in particular for the construction of hospitals, schools and other institutions.
Last October, after human rights group Amnesty International accused Turkey of forcibly deporting refugees from Syria, the EU budget commissioner called for a reduction in payments to Turkey.
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Unbelievable these turkish rats are in Nato, Bosporus or not!
Were it not for putler’s intervention, the Asshat fascist regime would be gone. The SIG and SDF would have formed a coalition that the west could have lived with. Putler’s main contribution has been bombing hospitals, schools, aid convoys and supplying Asshat with poison gas.
Top putler shill Peter Hitchens is today claiming in the MOS that the gassing was nothing to do with Asshat or putler.
Furthermore he has continued his lying attacks on Belingcat. He’s obviously had his orders.
I read his shit so you don’t have to. He has been pumping out industrial quantities of putler propaganda since at least 2008.
As with many, many other issues, Merkel fücked this up too. She should never have made a deal with Erdogoon – to get him to keep the refugees in Turkey for billions of aid in return. Many people knew that this would not end well. Only she and her äss spelunkers thought it was a grand deal. Merkel only opened herself and the entire EU to be coerced by this pathetic dicktator, and nothing more.
“We are not in a position to feed so many refugees”, he says.
Well, something stopping turks from not letting them enter Turkey then? I don’t think so.
He is doing this with a clear intention, and this intention is very obvious.