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Kurz called for full solidarity with Greece and adequate protection of the EU’s external borders. The background to this is the dispute between Ankara and Athens over gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean. Erdogan recently again threatened Greece with consequences.
The great real threat to the EU and its values is the distorted ideology that Kurz represents. This repulsive politics based on racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia is the sick mentality of our time. https://t.co/8JlMfUa1ru
– Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu (@MevlutCavusoglu) September 5, 2020
Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg defended the chancellor’s demands on Sunday. “Austria will continue to speak very clear language if Turkey violates international law, violates human rights, freedom of the media and the rule of law, or uses refugees and migrants as a means of pressure,” Schallenberg said.
Schallenberg reacts to Turkey’s accusations
This is not a policy based on racism or Islamophobia, “Schallenberg replied to the APA,” but a constant defense of those values on which the European Union is based and which guarantee our stability and prosperity. The fact that some Turkish politicians apparently cannot tell the difference shows once again how far Turkey has moved away from Europe in recent years. “
Due to a dispute over more funding for the refugee agreement between the EU and Turkey, Ankara announced in late February that the border with the EU was open to immigrants. Then thousands of people prepared to travel from Turkey to Greece, and thus to the EU. However, Greece did not let them pass.
(Those: APA)
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