ANKARA -- Turkey has decided to stop preventing refugees from Syria in trying to reach Europe by land and sea, a Turkish official said, Reuters reports
"Turkey will no longer stop refugees" - migrants already heading towards Europe
ANKARA -- Turkey has decided to stop preventing refugees from Syria in trying to reach Europe by land and sea, a Turkish official said, Reuters reports
Source: Tanjug
Close the entire text of the article here
EPA-EFE/ERDEM SAHIN
An official said this in anticipation of a massive movement of refugees from the Syrian province of Idlib, where there are one million displaced people.
"Turkish police, coastguard and border security officials had been ordered to stand down on refugees’ land and sea crossings towards Europe," he told Reuters. A local Syrian governor announced earlier that 29 soldiers had been killed in the attack on the Turkish army in Idlib.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, however, said that 34 soldiers had been killed.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has convened an extraordinary session of the Turkish Security Council in Ankara, which was attended by the defense minister and secret service chiefs. According to Turkish media, the situation in Idlib was discussed.
Turkey has sent thousands of troops to the border of this Syrian province to support rebels against President Bashir al-Assad's offensive. Show more Show less Nearly one million Syrians have fled in the last three months, in the largest exodus since the war began.
According to the Syrian Observatory, government forces, with the help of the Russian army, have occupied about 60 percent of the area in southern Idlib and neighboring Hami district in the last three days.
Around 300 migrants head from Turkey towards EU borders
The official told Reuters that Turkish police, coastguard and border security officials had been ordered to stand down on refugees’ land and sea crossings towards Europe in anticipation of the imminent arrival of refugees from Idlib.
Demiroren news agency said there were around 300 migrants, including women and children, in the group which began heading towards the borders between the two European Union countries and Turkey’s Edirne province at around midnight, Turkish media reported, after a senior official said Ankara will no longer stop Syrian refugees from reaching Europe.
Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis and Pakistanis were among those in the group.
Reuters could not independently confirm who the people were nor where they were headed.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly threatened to open the gates for migrants to travel to Europe. On Thursday, Turkey said 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an air strike by Syrian government forces in Syria’s northwestern Idlib region on Thursday.
The Associated Press (AP) reported last night that Syrian opposition fighters, backed by Turkey, have re-occupied a strategically important city in northwestern Syria, Saraqib.
In doing so, they were able to cut through the key M5 highway linking the city of Aleppo in the north with the capital Damascus, just days after the Syrian government opened it, for the first time since 2012.
Turkey and Russia support opposing sides in the Syrian war, with Ankara providing support to the opposition and Moscow to the President Assad, the AP reminded.
It isn't a trick question; it's just a loaded one.
(Make Serbia Great, 2 March 2020 14:43)
The CIA guys in Camp Bondsteel are smarter on that than either you or me.
Let them handle the entire crisis.
I feel it unjust that while they are responsible for the root cause of the problem - they spend all their days to watch girls in Ohrid. And since you have U.S. passport, they do that on your and my cost. You could be happy with the IRS allowance for foreign residents - but you never will get back a single Penny you pay for Medicare. A portion of that money ultimately goes to finance the girl-watching in Ohrid.
(Ataman, 3 March 2020 05:25)
Turkey really has no business in Syria. They are uninvited and causing trouble in an already troubled place.
As for the refugees I think many are economic migrants. Looking for a better life in Europe.
We can however trace back the cause of the migrants invading Europe.
America invaded Iraq (on a proven lie). They turned the place upside down, control the oil and established a puppet government. Hilary Clinton is on record by claiming that Iraq "was a great business opportunity for America". Albright said that half a million Iraqi children dying as a result of US invasion was worth it!!!! Amazing.......
The same in Libya. We in the west encouraged The Arab Spring uprising. Now we see the results of these actions.
Troubled times ahead, but the western powers who ignored international law are very much to blame for what we see today.
(View from the uk, 2 March 2020 15:21)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
How many should be returned to Assad? And how many of those refugees would want to return to Assad? And how many should go to Syria?
It isn't a trick question; it's just a loaded one.
(Make Serbia Great, 2 March 2020 14:43)
What terrible neighbor. Turkey needs to get out of Syria. Not only is it a neighbor that invades its neighbor to destabilize it and cause refugee flows, it then opens its borders to transit tens of thousands of those refugees to neighbors that it has not helped destablize through war. And when its not doing that, its assisting NATO bomb Serbia to assist terrorists pushing for a change in borders to create a mafioso-narco state in neighbor. I think that they may still be the Jihadi Caliphate! Everything they do hostile.
(Todd Thompson, 29 February 2020 22:00)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
It is impossible. The Earth is like a pizza and is 6000 year old. How you would do that? Fly them through the pizza? There is not a single case of an airplane from Saudi Arabia landing in Frankfurt. All was done by re-paining airplanes while up in the air and replacing the passengers with puppets.
In the reality, CIA and FSB are controlled by a Secret Freemason Sect. Man was never on the Moon and Gagarin was a major Communist conspiracy.
Recently, they hacked the parachute of Mike who was about to prove that Earth = pizza.
Mike was 100% correct. He was killed by Freemason criminals who believe in Darwin, Round-Earth and Big Bang conspiracy.
(Pizzazz!, 29 February 2020 03:01)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
What terrible neighbor. Turkey needs to get out of Syria. Not only is it a neighbor that invades its neighbor to destabilize it and cause refugee flows, it then opens its borders to transit tens of thousands of those refugees to neighbors that it has not helped destablize through war. And when its not doing that, its assisting NATO bomb Serbia to assist terrorists pushing for a change in borders to create a mafioso-narco state in neighbor. I think that they may still be the Jihadi Caliphate! Everything they do hostile.
(Todd Thompson, 29 February 2020 22:00)
Turkey really has no business in Syria. They are uninvited and causing trouble in an already troubled place.
As for the refugees I think many are economic migrants. Looking for a better life in Europe.
We can however trace back the cause of the migrants invading Europe.
America invaded Iraq (on a proven lie). They turned the place upside down, control the oil and established a puppet government. Hilary Clinton is on record by claiming that Iraq "was a great business opportunity for America". Albright said that half a million Iraqi children dying as a result of US invasion was worth it!!!! Amazing.......
The same in Libya. We in the west encouraged The Arab Spring uprising. Now we see the results of these actions.
Troubled times ahead, but the western powers who ignored international law are very much to blame for what we see today.
(View from the uk, 2 March 2020 15:21)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
It is impossible. The Earth is like a pizza and is 6000 year old. How you would do that? Fly them through the pizza? There is not a single case of an airplane from Saudi Arabia landing in Frankfurt. All was done by re-paining airplanes while up in the air and replacing the passengers with puppets.
In the reality, CIA and FSB are controlled by a Secret Freemason Sect. Man was never on the Moon and Gagarin was a major Communist conspiracy.
Recently, they hacked the parachute of Mike who was about to prove that Earth = pizza.
Mike was 100% correct. He was killed by Freemason criminals who believe in Darwin, Round-Earth and Big Bang conspiracy.
(Pizzazz!, 29 February 2020 03:01)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
How many should be returned to Assad? And how many of those refugees would want to return to Assad? And how many should go to Syria?
It isn't a trick question; it's just a loaded one.
(Make Serbia Great, 2 March 2020 14:43)
It isn't a trick question; it's just a loaded one.
(Make Serbia Great, 2 March 2020 14:43)
The CIA guys in Camp Bondsteel are smarter on that than either you or me.
Let them handle the entire crisis.
I feel it unjust that while they are responsible for the root cause of the problem - they spend all their days to watch girls in Ohrid. And since you have U.S. passport, they do that on your and my cost. You could be happy with the IRS allowance for foreign residents - but you never will get back a single Penny you pay for Medicare. A portion of that money ultimately goes to finance the girl-watching in Ohrid.
(Ataman, 3 March 2020 05:25)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
What terrible neighbor. Turkey needs to get out of Syria. Not only is it a neighbor that invades its neighbor to destabilize it and cause refugee flows, it then opens its borders to transit tens of thousands of those refugees to neighbors that it has not helped destablize through war. And when its not doing that, its assisting NATO bomb Serbia to assist terrorists pushing for a change in borders to create a mafioso-narco state in neighbor. I think that they may still be the Jihadi Caliphate! Everything they do hostile.
(Todd Thompson, 29 February 2020 22:00)
It isn't a trick question; it's just a loaded one.
(Make Serbia Great, 2 March 2020 14:43)
The CIA guys in Camp Bondsteel are smarter on that than either you or me.
Let them handle the entire crisis.
I feel it unjust that while they are responsible for the root cause of the problem - they spend all their days to watch girls in Ohrid. And since you have U.S. passport, they do that on your and my cost. You could be happy with the IRS allowance for foreign residents - but you never will get back a single Penny you pay for Medicare. A portion of that money ultimately goes to finance the girl-watching in Ohrid.
(Ataman, 3 March 2020 05:25)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
How many should be returned to Assad? And how many of those refugees would want to return to Assad? And how many should go to Syria?
It isn't a trick question; it's just a loaded one.
(Make Serbia Great, 2 March 2020 14:43)
Turkey really has no business in Syria. They are uninvited and causing trouble in an already troubled place.
As for the refugees I think many are economic migrants. Looking for a better life in Europe.
We can however trace back the cause of the migrants invading Europe.
America invaded Iraq (on a proven lie). They turned the place upside down, control the oil and established a puppet government. Hilary Clinton is on record by claiming that Iraq "was a great business opportunity for America". Albright said that half a million Iraqi children dying as a result of US invasion was worth it!!!! Amazing.......
The same in Libya. We in the west encouraged The Arab Spring uprising. Now we see the results of these actions.
Troubled times ahead, but the western powers who ignored international law are very much to blame for what we see today.
(View from the uk, 2 March 2020 15:21)
The EU should put all these refugees on ships and deliver them to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states which financed the terror in Syria.
(Michael Thomas, 28 February 2020 10:15)
It is impossible. The Earth is like a pizza and is 6000 year old. How you would do that? Fly them through the pizza? There is not a single case of an airplane from Saudi Arabia landing in Frankfurt. All was done by re-paining airplanes while up in the air and replacing the passengers with puppets.
In the reality, CIA and FSB are controlled by a Secret Freemason Sect. Man was never on the Moon and Gagarin was a major Communist conspiracy.
Recently, they hacked the parachute of Mike who was about to prove that Earth = pizza.
Mike was 100% correct. He was killed by Freemason criminals who believe in Darwin, Round-Earth and Big Bang conspiracy.
(Pizzazz!, 29 February 2020 03:01)