Posted on 03/11/2020 7:00:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
ISTANBUL/ATHENS - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan accused Greek security forces on Wednesday of behaving like Nazis for using force against migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey into the European Union.
Tens of thousands of migrants have been attempting to get into EU member Greece since Turkey said on Feb. 28 it would no longer keep them on its territory as part of a 2016 deal with Brussels in return for European aid for the refugees.
Greek security forces have used tear gas and water cannon to stop the migrants. Athens has suspended asylum applications for a month and says it has prevented more than 42,000 illegal migrants illegally entering the EU over the past two weeks.
In the Turkish parliament, Erdogan showed lawmakers of his ruling AK Party video footage of scenes at the Greek border.
There is no difference between those images on the Greek border and what the Nazis did, he said.
Opening fire on innocent people, exposing them to all kinds of inhumane treatment... (It) is barbarism in the full sense of the word, he said, repeating his call on Greece to let migrants cross its territory to reach richer western European countries.
Why are you obstructing them so much and carrying out Nazi tortures on them? he added.
Turkey has previously accused Greek security forces of shooting dead four migrants, a claim rejected by Athens as fake news. Greece says it has a duty to protect the EU border.
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Tear gas and water hoses on illegal aliens? Should do that at our border....
I’ve read that Like Castro,Erdogan opened his prisons and insane asylums and forced those folks to a no mans land between the border.
Castro sent his crazies and problems to the U.S. during the Mariel Boat Lift.
Erdogan hopes to give his as well as other crazies to Europe..
That's a big reason why Jimmy Carter lost to Reagan.
Turds of a feather flock together.
I hope Greeks have long memories of what Turkish occupation was like. Screw the SOBs.
Is the rhetorical? Generous welfare is why.
Remember what the Greeks did to the Italians and Germans during WWII.
Well, that and women and children to rape.
Machine guns might be in order here. A couple of bursts and the invasion will stop or the Turks will seriously arm the invaders and maybe infiltrate Turkish army among them.
Turkiye would like to regain its lost Greek province. Forcibly Islamifying it with hordes of third country invaders is one method to that end.
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