Turkey pours cold water on EU migrant plan

Ekathimerini ^ | 16 October 2015

[Lorianne]

The EUs much-hyped deal with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants looked shaky on Friday after Ankara said Brussels had offered too little money and mocked Europe’s efforts to tackle the refugee crisis.

Just hours after the European Union announced the accord with great fanfare at a leaders’ summit, Ankara said the plan to cope with a crisis that has seen some 600,000 mostly Syrian migrants enter the EU this year was just a draft.

Cracks in the deal emerged as Bulgaria’s president apologised after an Afghan refugee was shot dead crossing the border from Turkey.

In the latest in a series of jabs at Europe over the crisis, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ridiculed the bloc’s efforts to help Syrian refugees and challenged it to take Ankaras bid for EU membership more seriously.

"They announce they’ll take in 30,000 to 40,000 refugees and then they are nominated for the Nobel for that. We are hosting two and a half million refugees but nobody cares," said Erdogan.

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We are hosting two and a half million refugees but nobody cares," said Erdogan.

Hey, Erdogan, thanks for the help during the Iraq war.

[Zathras]

People forget the Israel ‘73 war.
Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and the USSR all planned a simultaneous invasion of Israel.

This time a lot more countries are involved in planning this invasion.

[Vigilanteman]

You would think that western countries would figure out that there is a genuine reason why Muslim countries don't want Muslim refugees.

Or why Saudi Arabians prefer to import workers from the Philippines rather than from Pakistan.

These two facts should tell us everything we need to know about Islam without another 9-11.

[butlerweave]

There’s an election coming up in turkey and the ruling party is down in the polls ,they must throw out Erdogan