...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
is planning to form a caravan to reach the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, organisers said Saturday.
Plans are being drawn up online via a Telegram channel, set up six days ago and followed by almost 70,000 people. Organisers are calling on people to bring sleeping bags, tents, life jackets, water, canned food and first aid kits.
"We will announce it when it's time to go," one organiser, a 46-year-old refugee who wished to remain anonymous, told AFP.
Some of the organisers already lived in the EU, he added.
Organisers say the caravan will be split into groups of up to 50 people, each led by a supervisor.
"We have been in Turkey for 10 years," read one message posted on the channel by an administrator. "We are protected... but Western countries must share the burden."
There are 3.7 million Syrian refugees officially living in Turkey.
Syria's civil war, which began with a brutal crackdown of anti-government protests in 2011, has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of the country's pre-war population from their homes.
Many Syrian refugees in Turkey fear being sent back, especially after a recent shift in Turkey's stance towards Damascus.
...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 there are in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really most important...has said he is preparing to send back one million Syrian refugees on a voluntary basis.
In February and March 2020, tens of thousands of
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
open.