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| The Grand Turk |
| EU: Turkey must keep border open |
| 2016-02-07 |
| Top EU officials on Saturday reminded Turkey of its international obligations to keep its frontiers open to refugees. “The Geneva convention is still valid which states that you have to take in refugees,” EU Enlargement and Regional Policy Commissioner Johannes Hahn said as he went into talks on the migrant crisis with EU foreign ministers and their counterparts from countries seeking EU membership, including Turkey. An EU diplomatic source told AFP that the foreign ministers, meeting informally in Amsterdam, would take the opportunity to voice their concerns over the fate of the refugees fleeing the government offensive against rebel forces in Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told a Syria donors conference in London on Thursday that Ankara would allow the latest group of refugees into the country. More than a million migrants landed in the 28-nation European Union last year, most of them crossing into Greece from Turkey, and then making their way through the Balkans to Germany and other northern member states. Such numbers have put huge strains on the bloc and the Schengen passport-free zone, with several countries - among them Germany, Austria, Hungary, Sweden - re-introducing border controls while Brussels struggles to find a comprehensive solution. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 At last check, IIRC HASHEMITE JORDAN is also repor at risk from circa 500,000 Syrian or mostly Syrian refugees. The International Community has repor decided to put out US$10.0Bilyuhn in collective assistance to the Syrian Refugee-Migrant problem. YOOHOO, TEMPLAR FRANCE, I'M STILL A'LOOKIN AT YOU. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2016-02-07 22:45 |
| #2 Considering the Turkey is not part of the EU (and the EU had no real intentions of including it), sounds like an opportunity to tell 'Top EU Officials' where to stuff it. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-02-07 09:10 |
| #1 See below |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-02-07 02:09 |