Turkey Threatens To Reignite European Muslim Migrant Crisis

Make no mistake, the massive Muslim migration (hijrah) into the West is jihad.

Turkey Threatens To Reignite European Migrant Crisis

By Tyler Durden August 1, 2019:

Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute,

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“We are facing the biggest wave of migration in history. If we open the floodgates, no European government will be able to survive for more than six months. We advise them not to try our patience.” — Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.

“Turkey is fully committed to the objective of EU membership… The finalization of the Visa Liberalization Dialogue process which will allow our citizens to travel to the Schengen area without a visa, is our first priority.” — Statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, May 9, 2019.

“This doesn’t mean that I have anything against the Turks…. But if we begin to explain it — that Turkey is in Europe — European school students will have to be told that the European border lies in Syria. Where’s common sense? … Can Turkey be regarded a European country culturally, historically, and economically speaking? If we say that, we want the European Union’s death.” — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

If the EU approves the visa waiver, tens of millions of Turks will gain immediate and unimpeded access to Europe’s passport-free zone. Critics of visa liberalization fear that millions of Turkish nationals may end up migrating to Europe. The Austrian newsmagazine, Wochenblick, reported that 11 million Turks are living in poverty and “many of them are dreaming of moving to central Europe.”

Turkey has threatened to re-open the floodgates of mass migration to Europe unless Turkish nationals are granted visa-free travel to the European Union. The EU agreed to visa liberalization in a March 2016 EU-Turkey migrant deal in which Ankara pledged to stem the flow of migrants to Europe.

Pictured: The Adiyaman refugee camp in Turkey. (Image source: UNHCR)

European officials insist that while Turkey has reduced the flow of migrants, it has not yet met all of the requirements for visa liberalization. Moreover, EU foreign ministers on July 15 decided to halt high-level talks with Ankara as part of sanctions over Turkish oil and gas drilling off the coast of Cyprus.

In an interview with Turkish television channel TGRT Haber on July 22, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoğlu said that Turkey was backing out of the migrant deal because the EU had failed to honor its pledge to grant Turkish passport holders visa-free access to 26 European countries.

“We have suspended the readmission agreement,” he said. “We will not wait at the EU’s door.”

A day earlier, Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu accused European countries of leaving Turkey alone to deal with the migration issue. In comments published by the state news agency Anadolu Agency, he warned:

“We are facing the biggest wave of migration in history. If we open the floodgates, no European government will be able to survive for more than six months. We advise them not to try our patience.”

The migration deal, which entered into force on June 1, 2016, was hastily negotiated by European leaders desperate to gain control over a crisis in which more than one million migrants poured into Europe in 2015.

Under the agreement, the EU pledged to pay Turkey €6 billion ($6.7 billion), grant visa-free travel to Europe for Turkey’s 82 million citizens, and restart accession talks for Turkey to join the EU. In exchange, Turkey agreed to stop the flow of migrants to Europe as well as to take back all migrants and refugees who illegally reach Greece from Turkey.

Turkey currently hosts an estimated 3.5 million migrants and refugees — mainly Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans. Many of these people presumably would migrate to Europe if given the opportunity to do so.

Responding to Çavuşoğlu’s remarks, EU spokesperson Natasha Bertaud insisted that Turkey’s continued enforcement of the EU-Turkey deal remains a condition for visa liberalization.

Turkish officials have repeatedly accused the EU of failing to keep its end of the bargain, especially with respect to visa liberalization and accession to the EU.

Under the agreement, European officials promised to fast-track visa-free access for Turkish nationals to the Schengen (open-bordered) passport-free zone by June 30, 2016 and to restart Turkey’s stalled EU membership talks by the end of July 2016.

To qualify for the visa waiver, Turkey had until April 30, 2016 to meet 72 conditions. These include: bringing the security features of Turkish passports up to EU standards; sharing information on forged and fraudulent documents used to travel to the EU, and granting work permits to non-Syrian migrants in Turkey.

European officials say that although Turkey has fulfilled most of their conditions, it has failed to comply with the most important one: relaxing its stringent anti-terrorism laws, which are being used to silence critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Since Turkey’s failed coup on July 15, 2016, more than 95,000 Turkish citizens have been arrested and at least 160,000 civil servants, teachers, journalists, police officers and soldiers have been fired or suspended from various state-run institutions.

Responding to the purge, the European Parliament on March 13, 2019 called for EU accession negotiations with Turkey to be suspended. “While the EU accession process was at its start a strong motivation for reforms in Turkey, there has been a stark regression in the areas of the rule of law and human rights during the last few years,” according to the adopted text.

Turkey was first promised EU membership in September 1963, when it signed an “Association Agreement” aimed at establishing a customs union to pave the way for eventual accession to the EU. Turkey formally applied for EU membership in April 1987 and membership talks began in October 2005.

Turkey’s EU accession talks stalled in December 2006 after the Turkish government refused to open Turkish ports and airports to trade from Cyprus. Since then, talks have continued on and off, but the process has been stalled due to political opposition from France and Germany, among others.

If Turkey were to join the EU, it would overtake Germany to become the EU’s largest member in terms of population. Consequently, the EU’s largest member state would be Muslim. Some European officials have warned that Turkish accession would cause Europe to “implode” and be “Islamized.”

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said that Turkey has no place in the EU. In a February 2016 interview with the French news channel iTélé, he expressed sentiments that presumably are shared by many Europeans:

“Turkey has no place in Europe. I have always adhered to this position, it is based on common sense. This doesn’t mean that I have anything against the Turks. We need them, they are our allies in NATO. But if we begin to explain it — that Turkey is in Europe — European school students will have to be told that the European border lies in Syria. Where’s common sense?

“It’s not just that. What’s the idea behind Europe? Europe is a union of European countries. The question is very simple, even in a geographical sense, is Turkey a European country? Turkey has only one shore of the Bosporus in Europe. Can Turkey be regarded a European country culturally, historically, and economically speaking? If we say that, we want the European Union’s death.”

On May 9, 2019, Erdoğan said that Turkey was committed to joining the EU. A statement released by the Turkish Foreign Ministry noted:

“Turkey remains committed to its objective of EU membership and continues its efforts in this respect…. Our expectation from the EU is to treat Turkey on equal footing with other candidate countries and to remove political barriers on the way of negotiations which is supposed to be a technical process…

“Although our accession negotiations are politically blocked, Turkey decisively continues its efforts for alignment with the EU standards. In the meeting today, we have set out the current developments in Turkey and agreed on the steps to be taken in the forthcoming period.

“The finalization of the Visa Liberalization Dialogue process which will allow our citizens to travel to the Schengen area without a visa, is our first priority.”

Even if Turkey complies with all of the EU’s demands, it seems unlikely that Turkish nationals will be granted visa-free travel anytime soon. On July 15, EU foreign ministers formally linked progress on Turkish-EU relations to Cyprus. A measure adopted by the European Council on July 15 states:

“The Council deplores that, despite the European Union’s repeated calls to cease its illegal activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey continued its drilling operations west of Cyprus and launched a second drilling operation northeast of Cyprus within Cypriot territorial waters. The Council reiterates the serious immediate negative impact that such illegal actions have across the range of EU-Turkey relations. The Council calls again on Turkey to refrain from such actions, act in a spirit of good neighborliness and respect the sovereignty and sovereign rights of Cyprus in accordance with international law….

“In light of Turkey’s continued and new illegal drilling activities, the Council decides to suspend … further meetings of the EU-Turkey high-level dialogues for the time being. The Council endorses the Commission’s proposal to reduce the pre-accession assistance to Turkey for 2020.”

European officials may be justified in taking a hardline stance against Turkey, but Ankara is well positioned to create chaos for the European Union if it chooses to do so. Indeed, Europe appears to be trapped in a no-win situation.

If the EU approves the visa waiver, tens of millions of Turks will gain immediate and unimpeded access to Europe’s passport-free zone. Critics of visa liberalization fear that millions of Turkish nationals may end up migrating to Europe. The Austrian newsmagazine, Wochenblick, reported that 11 million Turks are living in poverty and “many of them are dreaming of moving to central Europe.”

Others believe that Erdoğan views the visa waiver as an opportunity to “export” Turkey’s “Kurdish Problem” to Germany. Markus Söder, the head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, warned that millions of Kurds are poised to take advantage of the visa waiver to flee to Germany to escape persecution at the hands of Erdoğan: “We are importing an internal Turkish conflict. In the end, fewer migrants may arrive by boat, but more will arrive by airplane.”

On the other hand, if the EU rejects the visa waiver, and Turkey retaliates by reopening the migration floodgates, potentially hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East could once again begin flowing into Europe.

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Name

4 years ago

This cancer must be stopped now. Sarkozy states that NATO needs Turkey. Why? Turkey is now the enemy and has no place in NATO. Opening the door to Turkey will finish off Europe completely. European politicians in France, the UK, Germany have sown the seeds of their own destruction with their open door policy to Moslem immigration. Moslems destroy everything they touch.

Ziggy46

4 years ago

Reply to Name

Amen, Name.

martin henry

4 years ago

Reply to Ziggy46

Too cool of anagram. You’re smarter than the average mane.

Nefarious420

4 years ago

Reply to Name

Time to Free Constantinople of Islam and send it to the dustbin of history.

Name

4 years ago

Reply to Nefarious420

Great suggestion, but how do you suggest we do this?

Nefarious420

4 years ago

Reply to Name

MOABs, send them to the dark ages or their 72 black eyed goat virgins.

rickyoo

4 years ago

Reply to Name

The cancer is spreading on a daily basis in Europe and especially in the UK, where they have been allowed to have thousands of Mosques, whether it be converted houses, converted churches or mega Mosques. There are 180 sharia courts, so you already have millions of this filth residing across Scandinavia, Europe and the UK. They are being allowed to put Islam into predominately Christian countries and live by their culture, their laws and totally ignore the culture, the laws and the language of their host countries. The idiot leaders are terrified of upsetting them and continue to appease this medieval ideology. If they allow Turkey to join the EU then these countries will be wiped out, as they breed like rats and will kill their hosts and they will claim these countries as theirs, which is already taking place, They have to be destroyed. Can you imagine what the outcome would be if we moved millions of our people to a Muslim country, built churches plus had courts that only used western law instead of sharia law. It would never happen, as the people who moved their would all be killed.

Ziggy46

4 years ago

Erdogan is not merely a Muslim; he is a Jihad-Nazi. The fact that Turkey may become a member state of the EU is foreboding and utter madness. The EU and others of the once-upon-a-time Western Democracies utterly imbecilic pandering to Erdogan’s Turkey, an autocracy is befitting the label, Nazism. His threat of reigniting the Muslim Migrant Crisis is not a ruse; he and his regime’s end-game is the resurrection of the Ottoman Empire. Moreover, he aligned with others of the Jihad States are conniving to Islamize not only Europe but the entirety of the West.

The West’s waning and spineless leadership or more likely, allies of Islam are facilitating Erdogan and the Muslim scourge’s objective, the re-establishment of the Ottoman Empire and ultimately the domination of the West.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

4 years ago

Reply to Ziggy46

All muslum states have more in common w/nazism than freedom and liberty because islum is fascism.

Ziggy46

4 years ago

Reply to MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

Yep, it is Nazism, that’s why they and the Democrats, the Globalists and so-called Progressives have so much in common.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

4 years ago

The Visegrad countries had better well note that the rotten, corrupt, degenerate atheists who run the Europeon Urinal won’t ever be standing up to the muslum vermin and take appropriate steps to defend themselves, militarily, from the these cowards and their muslum paymasters.

jes sayen

4 years ago

” On May 9, 2019, Erdoğan said that Turkey was committed to joining the EU. ”

… and they might as well figure on finding turdish men
in their daughters’ bedrooms when they check on their
precious innocents.

MISS VEGAS

4 years ago

Is there any way to wall off the porous areas so that even if Turkey let the flood in they wouldn’t be able to get into Europe?

Nefarious420

4 years ago

Reply to MISS VEGAS

Western Europe doesn’t have the stomach for that, they fear being labelled “Islamophobic”, and that is a far worse crime than stabbings, rape grooming gangs, and bombings.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

4 years ago

Reply to Nefarious420

Rotten, corrupt, immoral, decadent and degenerate perfectly describe the dying atheist West.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

4 years ago

Reply to MISS VEGAS

Pre-emptive nuclear strike? Carpet bombing? Those would be my go-to plans.

John Acord

4 years ago

Reply to MISS VEGAS

The European Turkey border is with Greece and Bulgaria. Arm them to the teeth and pay a bounty for each Turk they capture coming across the border. The Greeks and Bulgars HATE Turks and with very good reason.

End PC

4 years ago

Reply to John Acord

What about the Aegean Sea with a lot of Greek Islands between Turkey & Greece? Ships can be hired.

John Acord

4 years ago

Reply to End PC

Turks are not noted for their naval or sailing abilities. The Greeks would make short work of them.

End PC

4 years ago

Reply to MISS VEGAS

Check a map, there’s the Aegean Sea with a lot of Greek Islands between Turkey & Greece.

Common Sense

4 years ago

Time to draw a line and stand opposed

Philip

4 years ago

Turkey, ’nuff said.

Leno

4 years ago

Reply to Philip

I refugee with student visa please I come to you country I work 3 men job for half wage. You support me?

Philip

4 years ago

????

Alleged-Comment

4 years ago

Somehow, I believe this Juncker EU created mess is related to Bible prophecy. Hold on to your hat, you are going to be taken for a RIDE.

Victor

4 years ago

How much proof do you need islam is a curse. If you haven’t figured it out by now you never will

Bruce

4 years ago

Reply to Victor

Over population of Every Western Country – globalisation – chinese take over -ISIS muslim lovers – LVGT – need I say more!!! White western countries be coming 3rd world countries and turning Black. Thanks govt for looking after ur people who voted u in. Not.

volksnut

4 years ago

Close your freaking borders

Patriotliz

4 years ago

This is payback when the Ottoman empire’s imperialistic military conquest into Europe was stopped at Vienna in 1683 and then, the Ottoman Empire per se was dissolved after WWI. Erdogan is “putting the band back together”—Muslims believe that when at first you don’t succeed, you try, try, try jihad again by whatever means possible to achieve Islamic domination in non-Islamic territory. Europe must be senile with short term and long term memory loss when it comes to the history of Muslim invasion of Europe. If Europe dies due to death by Islamic hijrah what was the point of Americans dying to defend freedom in Europe during WWI and WWII? What is the point of NATO? Who knew that the “population bomb” prophesied back in the 1960s was going to be the Islamic hijrah due to lack of border security.
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jerrys

4 years ago

islam is pleased to use people and children as weapons of war to advance the cause of islamic world domination. Using children to clear minefields, carry bombs, commit murders and confront military clearly shows their mindset and how will your children fare when we are forced to kowtow to islamic sharia???

John Acord

4 years ago

No act by the EU would more quickly cause its complete break up than to allow citizens of Turkey unrestricted immigration into Europe. Among many other problems, Turks already are responsible for crime 4-5 times greater than their numbers would justify in Germany. Burgaria, Greece, Cyprus,Malta, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Austria, Poland, Lithuania, Italy and others would immediately withdraw from the EU to stop the Turkish invasion. It would be a political, demographic, economic disaster.

Bart's Bantering

4 years ago

On one level, this may be a great thing – because such an invasion should be looked at as just that – a military invasion; and war can then be more easily waged against the evil of Islam as it was during the Crusades. A dead muzzie, or a converted to Christ muzzie, are the only good ones.

4 years ago

Maybe some kind of deal could be struck with Erdogan. On his birthday and the mozzlem holidays, send him an ample supply of bacha bazi bois if he doesn’t flood Europe with more mozzlems ???

Cauc-Asian Patriot

4 years ago

THE TURKS TRIED TO CONQUER EUROPE ONCE & HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF MORE OFTEN THAN WHAT WE MODERNS WISH TO ADMIT! SAD REALITY IS THAT THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE ARE RULED TOO MUCH BY GLOBALIST ECONOMIC CORPORATE CARTELS WHO TODAY DICTATE POLICIES OF CULTURAL ASSISTED SUICIDE! GOING BACK IN TIME, THE FALSE CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES CARED MORE ABOUT SHORT-TERM ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS THAN PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUAL BROTHERHOOD IN THE CRIMEAN WARS THAT SET EUROPE UP FOR WWI, RUSSIA TO BE AN ISOLATED, RIPE TARGET FOR COMMUNISM SO WHAT HAPPENS IN THE PAST AGAIN, REPEATS ITSELF IN THE FUTURE! I BELIEVE THE SAVIORS OF EUROPE WILL BE THE EURO-ASIANS WHO REFUSE TO GO ALONG WITH THE POWERFUL FEW WHO SUPPORT THE EXPANSION OF THE E.U.!

Sgtsnuffy

4 years ago

TURKEY NEEDS TO BE DEEP FRIED . ESPECIALLY ERDOGAN !!!

Roma Mikhasev

4 years ago

ordinary islam – anyone surprised?

bill53

4 years ago

islam doesn’t belong on Earth, let alone in Europe.

pb2

4 years ago

muslims:
Let us take over slowly or we’ll take over quickly. Your choice.

R. Arandas

4 years ago

Free Anatolia now!

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