NEW MIGRANT SURGE HITS GREECE DESPITE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR TURKEY-EU DEAL; ERDOGAN DEMANDS MORE
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/05/new-migrant-surge-hits-greece-despite-multi-billion-dollar-turkey-eu-deal-erdogan-demands-more; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
In March 2016, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had reached a migrant deal with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. The agreement obliged Turkey to rein in migrant trafficking in Aegean in return for billions of euros in ‘aid’. As part of the 2016 deal, Merkel also agreed to accept 150,000 to 200,000 migrants from Turkey against the wishes of several European member states.The European Union’s deal with Turkey is failing to stop migrants from crossing into Europe.
They end up in Italy and Greece. From there, they can go anywhere. Alarmingly:
A top Greek court ruled on Wednesday that migrants landing on Greek islands should no longer be held there while asylum claims are assessed, a decision raising alarm among EU officials in Brussels.
Appeasing jihadist regimes does not work, and trusting Islamic supremacist despots is folly. This was evident from the Iranian deal: Obama pumped billions into Iran’s coffers, which the rogue state used to advance its jihadist proxies globally and expand its nuclear capability. “55,000 pages of documents and 183 CD’s revealed that Iran hid an atomic archive of documents on its nuclear program.” Iran has been “blatantly lying” as it developed its nuclear program.
In this case, the dishonest Islamic despot is Recep Tayyip Erdogan:
Despite Erdogan’s repeated threats to scrap the deal and ‘flood Europe with migrants’, EU continues to cut large checks to Ankara. By March 2018, European countries shipped more than €6 billion to Erdogan under the deal….Erdogan, however, isn’t satisfied with financial incentives alone. He also wants visa-free travel for 80 million Turkish nationals within Europe’s Schengen zone.
European taxpayer dollars are being recklessly committed to Erdogan, as Muslim migrants still continue to flood Europe and further burden those same taxpayers, not just financially, but with the escalating risks of jihad attacks, Muslim migrant crime and expanding no-go zones.
Erdogan has stated that “Turks are the future of Europe,” as part of his dream of a revived Ottoman Empire. He also still wants Turkey to join the EU.
“New Migrant Surge Hits Greece Despite EU-Turkey Deal,” by Vijeta Uniyal, Legal Insurrection, May 18, 2018:
In March 2016, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had reached a migrant deal with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. The agreement obliged Turkey to rein in migrant trafficking in Aegean in return for billions of euros in ‘aid’. As part of the 2016 deal, Merkel also agreed to accept 150,000 to 200,000 migrants from Turkey against the wishes of several European member states.Chancellor Merkel is pushing for similar deals with the Muslim-majority countries of North Africa. “We must agree on similar deals with other countries, such as in North Africa, in order to get better control over the Mediterranean sea refugee routes,” Merkel said months after sealing the deal with Turkey.Despite Erdogan’s repeated threats to scrap the deal and ‘flood Europe with migrants’, EU continues to cut large checks to Ankara. By March 2018, European countries shipped more than €6 billion to Erdogan under the deal.Erdogan, however, isn’t satisfied with financial incentives alone. He also wants visa-free travel for 80 million Turkish nationals within Europe’s Schengen zone.German weekly Der Spiegel reported the surging migrant influx across Turkey’s borders:In recent months, more migrants have come into Europe through Turkey than last year. According to the European Commission (EU’s executive arm), the number of unauthorized crossings on the coasts and territorial borders of the EU has more than doubled compared to the first quarter of the previous year. As of May 6, estimated 15,450 refugees entered Europe through this route.The EU Commissioner for Greece called for more border officers to be dispatched and providing the EU border and coastal protection agency Frontex with better equipment. Member states need to urgently allocate resources for the agency to keep its operations running and to take up additional tasks, [EU Commissioner] Avramopoulos said. [translation by the author]The sudden surge in migrant inflow coincides with Turkey’s renewed efforts to join the European Union. Earlier this week, Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Recep Akdag told a German newspaper that he wanted his country’s “EU accession to be sped up.” The EU had suspended the accession talks after Erdogan regime began a massive clampdown on dissidents and Kurdish minority in the wake of Turkey’s 2016 military coup….
