Turkey ‘s Interior Minister Minister has threatened that “one million refugees” would travel to Europe and said about the situation on Evros “this is only the beginning.”



Minister Suleyman Soylu claimed on Saturday that 143,000 people have reached Greece since the opening of the borders to the EU. The number will soon rise sharply, he added.

However, Soylu’s number cannot be verified and is much larger than the data coming from Greece. According to Greek authorities, from Greece. On the Greek side, there have been fewer than 100 people arrested since the weekend and around 37,000 illegal border crossing attempts have been prevented in the past seven days.

Turkey’s Special Operations Police have been operating at the Greek-Turkish border since last night, ending the push-backs from the Greek side, the minister said further.

He added “the masks have fallen” and said “it has been revealed how ruthless those who are in favor of alleged humanity.”

“How many foreigners are in Mitsotakis’ country, you know? A total of 115,000 foreigners for whom he took 10 times the money they owe. Of these 40,000 and some are in the islands and 70,000 are in mainland Greece. We have 4 million refugees. When one speaks let’s first look at oneself. Let’s look at what weight he holds. They have completely violated the procedures set by the European Union for immigrants and refugees and the Geneva Convention, “he said.

He threatened “this is only the beginning. Look, we caught 451,000 irregular migrants last year. Now the weather is warm. As it gets warmer. In Evros, Greece divides us with a border line of over 200 kilometers. Unfortunately this year in the Balkans there was drought. In some places (in Evros) the level of rain fell to 40-45 cm.”

For one more time Soylu called on migrants and refugees in Turkey to cross the border.

“What does this mean? That you can easily walk on your own. Mitsotakis does not have the capacity to hold them at the border. See what happens next. Not only what has happened so far, but also what will happen next.” the minister added.

Refugees who cross to Europe will soon top to a million, European governments will fall, their economies will be destabilized and their stock exchanges will tumble and they can't do anything about it, says #Turkey's Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu. pic.twitter.com/xeUBX8uiwZ — Abdullah Bozkurt (@abdbozkurt) March 7, 2020

PS And to think that President Erdogan is heading to Brussels on Monday with the aim to start negotiations on a new Eu-turkey deal. Turkish “diplomacy of threats and blackmails” is alive and kicking – as always.