Turkish blackmail in the name of humanity: Erdogan threatens Europe with flood of refugees

Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been shaken by a violent political shake-up in recent months as his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) suffered a major and sudden loss in the municipal elections, in March 2019, ending with the loss of major municipalities such as Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.

The ship is sinking

The regime of the Turkish president was further defeated after the escape of senior AKP officials such as former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, economic mind Ali Babacan, and other top leaders.

To get out of his crisis, Erdogan has exploited all the political papers in his possession, whether in accordance with the charters and humanitarian trends or not, as in the case of the Syrian refugees, and the establishment of a safe area.

Scarecrow of refugees

Turkish President Erdogan threatened European countries on Friday to open the doors of his country to Syrian refugees wishing to travel to Europe, according to the Reuters news agency.

The Turkish president added that Europe should provide more assistance to Ankara, as well as help in the implementation of the safe area, by providing more support to the Turkish government.

Erdogan demanded from his US counterpart Donald Trump to understand the nature of Turkish fears of the Kurdish military presence on the border with his country, threatening to move his country alone to implement the safe area, but he played down the possibility that the United States harms the interests of its Turkish ally, especially with regard to sanctions or the establishment of a safe zone in northern Syria.

The Turkish president presented the allegations of loyalty to the United States by announcing in a press interview with Reuters, Friday, 13 September 2019, his intention to buy the US Patriot missile defense system, pointing out that his country will host a four-way summit in October in cooperation with France, Germany and Russia, in order to resolve the military conflict in the area of ​​de-escalation in Idlib province, as well as the issue of Syrian refugees.

Sudden coup

Despite Erdogan’s announcement on Saturday, August 3, 2019, that his country is always open to the oppressed and oppressed refugees coming to it, while laying the foundation stone for an Orthodox church in Istanbul, the Turkish president added that his country hosts 4 million of our Muslim brothers coming from Syria and Iraq, Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen, as well as Syriacs, Yazidis and other sons of other beliefs, Anatolia news agency reported.

However, a report published in the New York Times, July 20, 2019, indicates that there are 100,000 Syrians living in camps near the Turkish-Syrian border, in preparation for their return to their country.

This is confirmed by the field study conducted by the American newspaper in cooperation with the University of Kadir Haas in Istanbul, which pointed out that 67.7% of Turkish citizens believe the need to deport Syrian refugees from Turkey. They consider them the reason for the high unemployment rate by 13% among young people.