Greek authorities think Erdoğan regime plans to push virus-infected migrants to EU
Greek authorities think Erdoğan regime plans to push virus-infected migrants to EU
By Arthur Lyons 12 April 2020
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The Hellenic Armed Forces, Coast Guard, and Police are on high alert after government officials received intel that Turkish regime leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning a “sea Evros” as thousands of migrants gather in towns and cities along Turkey’s Aegean coastline.
According to a report from Greek newspaper Kathimerini which cites “sources that cannot be named but which are considered reliable”, the Erdoğan regime is planning to push virus-infected migrants to Greece and other EU member states.
The same sources also say that thousands of migrants, many of whom were present at last month’s border crisis at Kastanies and Pazarkule, have been moved from migrant camps in the interior of the Turkey to the country’s coastal regions. Turkish authorities are said to be overseeing the migrant’s movement toward the coastline.
The fact that the Hellenic Coast Guard has blocked 21 ships full of illegal immigrant in the past two weeks near the area of Lesbos and Agothonisi supports the information put forward by Kathimerini’s sources. Furthermore, the accumulation of migrants along the Turkish coastline also seems confirm that Erdogan is preparing swamp Greece’s eastern Aegean islands with migrants.
Authorities in Greece have also collected information which suggests various NGOs are also helping migrants in Turkey make their way illegally to Greece.
Earlier this month, Turkey threatened to send back migrants to the Greek border as soon as the global COVID-19 pandemic has ended, as Voice of Europe reported.
“When the coronavirus pandemic is over, we are not going to deter any immigrants who want to return to the Greek-Turkish border in Pazar,” Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.
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