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The Grand Turk
Vowing to keep border open, Turkey's Erdogan compares Greeks to Nazis
2020-03-12
[FRANCE24] President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
 said Wednesday he would keep The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
’s border open for refugees until the EU had met all his demands, while comparing Greece’s response to the crisis to the Nazis.
"met all his demands"
"NO"
"Until all Turkey’s expectations, including free movement ... updating of the customs union and financial assistance, are tangibly met, we will continue the practice on our borders," he said in a televised speech.

Turkey’s decision at the end of February to re-open its border for refugees sparked a row with Brussels, as well as harsh exchanges with Greece.

Greece has tear-gassed thousands of migrants colonists trying to break through and been accused of beating and stripping migrants colonists of their belongings if they made it across the border.

"There is no difference between what the Nazis did and those images from the Greek border," Erdogan said.

Greece has denied using violence and accused Turkey of pushing desperate people into dangerous attempts to enter Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Erdogan said he opened the gates in order to pressure Europe into providing greater assistance with the Syrian conflict, where Turkey has fought to push back a regime offensive on the last rebel stronghold of Idlib.

"With the warming of the weather in the spring, the influx of irregular migrants colonists heading to Europe will not be limited to Greece but spread all over the Mediterranean," he warned.

But he reiterated that Turkey hopes for a fresh agreement with Brussels ahead of the next EU leaders’ summit on March 26.

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Posted by:Fred

#10  Bulgaria opening a dam to raise water levels is a nice touch.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-03-12 18:06  

#9  ^Love the bayonets.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-12 17:22  

#8  Interesting bit if info here.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-03-12 17:01  

#7  Funny, I don't remember people fleeing into NAZI Germany.

If you want to find the NAZIs perhaps you need to look where the folks are trying to escape.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2020-03-12 10:29  

#6  Unlike the Turks, the Greeks actually fought the Nazis, even after their country was overrun. They paid the price for it as well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-03-12 07:14  

#5  Erdogan needs to be charged with 50000 volts.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-12 05:59  

#4  Spreading Corona virus...

Erdogan needs to be charged with biowarfare
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-03-12 05:53  

#3  Herb, it's no you again?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-12 04:27  

#2  For the first time in recorded history, Europeans pooh-pooh accusations of being a Nazi.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2020-03-12 04:06  

#1  Lack of self-awareness or big lie technique?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-12 03:50  

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