Once again, Turkey has threatened to send more migrants westward to the European Union’s border as soon as the global COVID-19 pandemic which originated in Wuhan, China has ended.
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced this week that his government removed nearly 6,000 migrants from the Greek-Turkish border region and moved them to nine Turkish provinces where they will be housed in deportation centers until the pandemic has ended, Greek newspaper Proto Thema reports.
The minister said that the move was taken in order to prevent the further spread of the COVID-19 virus. Soylu, however, added that the actions taken by his government did not indicate a change in its policy with regard to the migrants leaving Turkey for the EU.
“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,” the Turkish minister said.
Greece’s Deputy Foreign Minister George Koumoutsakos blasted Soylu, saying: “Yesterday’s statements by Soyilu respond to those who still had the slightest doubt that the events in Evros were an aggressive plan to brutally blackmail Greece and Europe with a ‘weapon’ of migrant exploitation.”
A month ago, Soylu, during an interview on CNN Türk, said that Europe’s governments “will change, their economies will deteriorate, their stock markets will collapse” when Turkey floods it with migrants.
Earlier this week, Voice of Europe reported on Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) announcing last week that it has intelligence which indicates that the Turkish government deployed state forces disguised as migrants to help incite riots at the Greek border.
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