When the neo-Ottoman sultan Erdogan Recep Tayyip I, “the much beloved” demands jizya, O EU dhimmis, it is your job to ask how much and how soon, no more than that.
[AnNahar] The EU announced Thursday that it has allocated to ...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
the full six billion euros Ankara sought in return for its hosting of Syrian refugees.
After the biggest refugee crisis since World War II in 2015 saw a million people arrive in Europe, Brussels and Ankara agreed in 2016 to resolve the issue.
Under the deal, Turkey pledged to accept the return of
President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...has accused the EU of not fulfilling promises and says Ankara has spent $40 billion on more than 3.6 million Syrian refugees living in Turkey.
"Today marks the finalisation of the contracting of six billion euros in EU support to refugees and host communities in Turkey," said Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut, the bloc's envoy to Ankara.
The two sides have "put an important milestone behind us and (will) now focus on making sure that the refugees and host communities will benefit from our projects."
The EU money has been earmarked for specific social projects inside Turkey for helping refugees and will not be paid directly to the
The issue has put a significant strain on relations between the bloc and Turkey.
Earlier this year, Erdogan said Turkey would not prevent
He sought to pressure Brussels into providing more support to Turkey in view of the Syrian conflict, especially after violence flared in the northwestern region of Idlib.
The new contracts include supporting health services for
They have fled to Turkey since the conflict broke out after anti-government protests in Syria in 2011, with a corpse count of nearly 400,000.
Tensions between the bloc and Turkey are high over Ankara's energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in waters claimed by Greece.
The bloc said after a European Council summit last week that it plans more sanctions against Turkey.
But it added that the EU was "prepared to continue providing financial assistance to Syrian refugees and host communities in Turkey".