Mohamed Youssri
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, threatened to keep his country’s borders open until his demands are met.
In a March 11 address, the Turkish president said refugees would continue to cross his country on the road to Europe.
Erdogan wants Europe to back his military adventures in Syria, resume negotiations on Turkey’s membership in the European Union and give him additional financial add so that Turkey can keep refugees in it.
These threats took a new turn on February 29 when Erdogan ordered his country’s authorities to open Turkish borders for the refugees to cross on the road to Greece.
Legal aspects
Erdogan uses some legal loopholes that do not allow European states to prevent the refugees from entering them. These loopholes include the Schengen Agreement of 1985 which stipulates a freedom of movement between the countries signing it. The agreement also exempts people moving between its signatory states from search and other security measures at the shared borders between these states.
Some European states are calling for suspending the agreement, especially in the light of continual Turkish threats.
Solutions
The agreement is putting the European Union in a corner. Greece is a signatory to the agreement and a member of the European Union. In this capacity, it cannot prevent the refugees flowing to its border from entering it. Athens can only stop these refugees if it proves that they endanger its own security.
Nevertheless, the agreement opens the door for cooperation among the security agencies of the countries signing it, especially on the status of the persons entering each of these countries. It facilitates the entry of tourists and students into its member countries.
Greece can prove that the refugees standing at its border now are neither students nor tourists. It can also prove that these refugees pose danger to its own security.
Covid-19
Greece can also use the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus to justify any measures it takes to prevent the entry of the refugees into it.
At the beginning of March, Greece said it would suspend asylum requests for a month.
The Greek prime minister said his country would do this to protect the borders of the European Union.
Greece, he said, would deport immigrants who cross into its own border to protect itself against Covid-19.
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