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Serious humanitarian situation on the Greek-Turkish border
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The humanitarian situation on the Turkish-Greek border worsens by the day under the eyes of the international community, and with no concrete solutions so far. After the Turkish president’s announcement that he would open his borders to every migrant who wants to reach the European Union, 10,000 MILs are approaching the northern border of Turkey, although the doors are not really open.

The purpose is to reach Greece, a member of the European Union. Greece is doing everything possible to prevent refugees from passing, Turkey accuses Athens of assaulting migrants with tear gas, and rubber bullets. Meanwhile, thousands of migrants suffer from winter, lack of food, and the conditions of living in conditions of irregular migration.

How does the situation develop? Is there any solution in sight?

The emergence of the coronavirus on the world scene, and the panic it has generated, overshadows many news that also severely affect the reality of thousands of people … Let’s talk about one of them. These are aerial images of Syrian migrants and other nationalities who reacted to the opening of the Turkish border. Some crowd around the fences with barbed wires, others are left on the road, setting up makeshift homes. Many are children.

The images are truly impressive

Children are half of all refugees in the world, says the UN, and here families arrive fleeing from war, violence, and destruction. Mothers of five children who lost their husbands in the war, families fleeing from the bombs, the lack of work … They all aspire to reach Germany, France, or some other country in the European Union.

Why has this point been reached?

The war in Syria has lasted ten years. Although it is already a fact that the rebel forces are losing ground, and the Syrian army regains control of the country, the Arab nation has suffered bombardment, destruction left and right, death, the division caused by war, and millions of people who they have had no choice but to flee their reality to save themselves. A war fueled by the United States, and those that echo it, that have never ceased in the effort to disappear Bashar Al Assad from the map.

Turkey has had to receive more than three and a half million refugees from that conflict. Geographically it is in the middle between war and peace. It is not the first time that this country has suffered a crisis like this, which makes the whole of Europe that supports war in the name of freedom nervous, and then does not want to bear the inevitable consequences of a warlike conflict.

In 2015, the crisis calmed down, a calm only possible due to the active participation of Turkey … At that time Brussels, the capital of the European institution, signed an agreement with Ankara, they would pay 6,000 million euros, and Turkey would prevent migrants from overcrowding border points.

Erdogan is tired of this, says that he can no longer sustain the situation, that Brussels does not pay everything he promised, and imposes conditions such as resuming the dialogue of Turkey’s entry into the European Union, an old Turkish dream, difficult to fulfill .

Erdogan has decided to fulfill the worst nightmare of Angela Merkel, Macron and company: to withdraw the military receipt from the border, and to pass the scroll to Greece, your problem, which has been saddled enough to Ankara. The consequences are devastating, migrants crowd the border in the hope of being able to cross.

Meanwhile, the Government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis has deployed troops at the border: they have launched tear gas at migrants, including children, water cannons, fire rubber bullets and non-rubber bullets, which they catch after crossing them. they take off clothes and shoes in the middle of winter. Erdogan says that “there is no difference between the images of the Greek border and what the Nazis did.” “By opening fire on innocent people, exposing them to all kinds of inhumane treatment. It is barbaric ”.

Athens denies all this, says it’s all Turkey’s fault

A spokesman for the Greek government, Stelios Petsas, has said “Whoever asks for asylum should knock on the door and ask for it under international law.” But at the same time they closed the possibility of requesting asylum, which leaves very few options for migrants.

Meanwhile, they boast of saying that Greece has managed to prevent the entry of more than 42,000 people in the last few weeks alone. Erdogan is not without problems. He fought until a few days ago with the Syrian army in Idlib province, where the war continues, although forces loyal to Al Assad have an advantage, Moscow intervened and a fragile truce remains, a necessary impasse there in that part of the world, where it is very difficult to identify who is the common enemy.

As long as there are tanks, weapons, war, there will be displaced and refugees. And victims always have the same face, whether in a migration crisis in northern Mexico, or in Turkey. Let’s hear what two girls waiting on the northern Turkish border say, and whose family wants to use Greece as a way to get to the old continent …

Erdogan has been clear: he wants to review the operation of customs, specify steps towards integration with the blockade, and money, to alleviate the cost of keeping millions fleeing from the war. Merkel and Macron will go to Ankara in the next few days, this is a big problem for both of them, in a Europe where anti-refugee sentiment grows, and these crises become rolls of electoral scope that put their job at stake.

If they get tough closing doors, mistreating, abusing, letting them die in the Mediterranean, as Greece and Italy have already done, some accuse them of violating human rights, and if they try to offer a Solomonic solution, the right accuses them of being lazy , to promote the invasion of refugees.

And there will be those who think, why is this number of immigrants a problem in Germany, or in France, or in Greece?

Migration is an old phenomenon like humanity, war unleashes these crises, in a world where there is a violent concentration of wealth in those countries that were colonizing empires, or are still in their modern version, and the rest of the world colonized. , which is a source of natural resources, but whose refugees are nobody’s problems… The war was prolonged and exacerbated by Washington and company, from their comfortable distance, and now it is the problem of Turkey and Europe, to carry those who have been displaced from their countries.

No one lives in a desolate field, without water, without food, because they want, because they choose it, they flee without remedy from a reality that was imposed on them, and in which they had no decision-making capacity. It is one of the many tragedies that right now count Little is the mainstream media, because those who arrive do not have coronaviruses, they have other things, hunger, and fear, something much more widespread than COVID 19, and against which it is very difficult to find vaccines …

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