SYRIZA on migration crisis: Turkey’s blunt tooling of refugees cannot be left unanswered by EU
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Main opposition Syriza party on Saturday called on the government to develop a national response strategy, in view of the latest unfolding developments of the migration crisis at Greece’s mainland and maritime borders.
In a statement, the party added that “the blunt tooling of refugees and migrants as leverage on Turkey’s part cannot be left unanswered by the European Union.”
It added that “the EU must ensure the implementation of the (2016 EU-Turkey) Joint Declaration, as well as assume responsibility for developing an effective plan to deal with the possibility of its annulment.”
Syriza also commented that “Erdogan’s choice to open the refugee viaduct is not accidental; it comes at a time when the government’s unprecedented and irresponsible manipulations at hotspot islands lead to divisions and clashes there akin to civil war.”
“The tooling of the migration crisis by Turkey in a period of regional geopolitical tension and unacceptable claims on its part – far beyond what is defined by international law in the eastern Mediterranean – does not allow for more of the government’s irresponsible and amateurish manipulations,” the party observed.
Source: ANA – MPA
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