Turkish president slams Greece for its hostile approach to migrants

ANKARA

Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday criticized Greece over its hostile approach towards migrants.

“The attitude of our western neighbor Greece towards migrants has now reached the level of brutality,” Erdogan said in his address to the inaugural congress of the Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of the Islamic World in Istanbul.

Unfortunately, the Western countries are not responding to “this brutality of Greece,” the Turkish leader lamented.

Blaming the West for not being sensitive enough about the issue, Erdogan said the Western countries and some institutions that close their doors to migrants show “high levels of tolerance to the terrorist groups PKK and FETO.”

The separatist terror group PKK is indeed financing its attack on Syria, Iraq, and Türkiye by receiving and collecting donations from those countries every year, he added.

In its more than 35-year terror campaign against Türkiye, the PKK – listed as a terrorist organization by Türkiye, the US, and the EU – has been responsible for the deaths of over 40,000 people, including women, children and infants.

The Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) orchestrated the July 15, 2016 defeated coup in Türkiye, where 251 people were killed and 2,734 were injured.

Ankara accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the state through the infiltration of Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.

• FETO
• Greece
• Migrant
• PKK
• Turkiye