Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears to be visibly losing his nerve. Upon being accused of having extorted the EU with refugees, he said in Ankara: “We’re not ashamed of this. The protocol is only a conformation for us.” Turkish media reported this. At the beginning of the week, Greek news magazine “euro2day” published conversations between high-ranking EU representatives and the Turkish president. According to it, Erdogan threatened therewith to open the gates to Europe. One day, it could be that Turkey “will open the gate and wish them bon voyage.”
“What have we done until now? We have kept the refugees at the borders and brought them back to our refugee camps.” At some time the country could lose its patience, though. “Nobody shall believe that our airplanes and buses are there for no reason at all,” he said.
The refugees could be sent to countries from which currently “good suggestions” might come for the opening of the border because of the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo, said Erdogan according to the Anadolu news agency.
Erdogan also criticized the UNO because of the appeal for the opening of the border with Syria and said that the world organization should direct its appeal to other lands as well. The battles around Aleppo could force up to 600,000 people into flight.
Since the beginning of the offensive in Aleppo by Syrian government troops supported by Russian air attacks, tens of thousands of people have fled to the border with Turkey. There they have been waiting for days in overfilled camps, since Turkey has refused them entry.
(The article was originally published on t-online)
PI-Comment: Nice that Erdogan is now also officially admitting what was already clear to everyone else that can add “one and one” together. In addition to this, it should be mentioned that Turkey first co-produced the “refugee tsunami” and then intentionally passed it on to Europe so that he could extort the EU.
Concrete demands are a freedom of visa for Turks coming to Europe and accession to the EU, which would have as the outcome another settlement of millions of Turkish Mohammedans, most of all in Germany. With such a thing, Erdogan would come a great piece closer to his further imperialistic goal, “of conducting Islam victoriously to the West.”
PS: Not quite 54 percent of the Turks living in Germany voted for Erdogan in June 2015 in the Turkish parliamentary election.
Original on PI-German translated by Anders Denken