Posted on 03/05/2020 3:21:31 PM PST by BenLurkin
Turkey says it is deploying 1,000 police officers to its land border with Greece to halt the pushback of migrants into Turkey.
Thousands of migrants and refugees, desperate to get into the EU, remain in the border zone. Greek guards have fired tear gas to stop them entering.
The extra Turkish police are going to the Meric river (called Evros in Greek) on the border, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
The EU has condemned Turkey's policy.
The Greek government says that since early Saturday its forces have prevented the illegal entry of 34,778 people and arrested 244.
Syrians, Afghans, Pakistanis and West Africans are among the migrants at the border.
The River Evros is now heavily fortified, with Greek security personnel positioned on every few metres, a BBC correspondent reports.
Top EU officials have visited the area, which serves as the bloc's south-eastern border, promising financial help to Greece to step up security.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen described Greece as a "European shield", using the Greek world aspida.
The EU's Frontex border agency plans to deploy extra guards and equipment to help Greek police.
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Do Greeks remember the centuries of oppression when they were in Ottoman rule?
Too bad Turkey is a NATO ally. I think we should be siding with the Greeks.
Good point. I was just thinking of Thermopylae and Athens.
This reminds me of the Siege of Alesia in 52 BC, in which the leader of the Gauls, Vercingetorix sent all the inhabitants of Alesia outside the gates to reserve the foods for the fighters and Julius Caesar forbade his soldiers to take them in and let the people starve to death in-between the two fortifications.
Now that Putin has agreed to give Turkey a nice chunk of Syria as a buffer zone, this may become less of an issue.
Maybe the EU army should get involved. Oh wait
Greece can just wait for them to cross, then fire.
I’m pretty sure Turk forces are kinda tied up in Idlib, otherwise they would have sent a few army brigades...just to pump things up.
My support and encouragement goes to the Greeks who are stopping this invasion of Europe.
Too bad none of their fellow EU scum is lending a hand.
Gee, what happens when Turkey goes to war against NATO?
Can European NATO (without US) even defeat Turkey?
Once again, the Syrians are the Monkey in the Middle.
Nobody wants them if given a choice. Sort of like the Somalians.
Bulgaria put up a wall.
https://www.vagabond.bg/forum/politics/item/3772-great-wall-of-bulgaria.html
Since Greece and turkey are NATO members, shouldn’t they be singing “Kumbaya”?
“What is our obligation when one NATO nation attacks another NATO nation?...asking for a friend...”
In this case: Side with the Christians.
The Greeks kicked Xerxes’ arse three times running - the naval battle at Salamis and the land battle at Plataea plus the simultaneous battle at Mycale. Xerxes went home after that, and his armies fought delaying and spoiling actions for a while after, but Xerxes’ idea of Greek conquest ended at Plataea.
Greece needs to ask Poland, Bulgaria and Serbia for aid against the Turks.
Turkish invasion of Greece?
Yeah, AFTER Athens was destroyed and Xerxes took control of most of the mainland, if only for a short time.
Although one could theorize that if it wasn’t for Ephialtes, Leonidas might have won at Thermopylae and sent him packing for good.
My original post was primarily meant as a simile for wanting the muslim invasion of Greece stopped at their first step across the border, as the Persian invasion was not.....
I wonder if there any Ephiltes type traitors in the Greek government now.
Thanks BenLurkin. Time to cap Erdogan. Better he be removed on a schedule where we can ready ourselves -- be assured, whatever follows Erdogan *will* be worse.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS) The Three Amigos
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