Turkey has announced that unless the European Union announces a “firm date” by which its nationals will have visa-free access to Europe, the March 2016 “refugee” agreement will be revoked—which means that the 2015 Balkans route invasion will start in full swing again.
Speaking in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said his country expects to have visa-free travel by October this year.
His demand was described by the Bild newspaper as an “ultimatum” which “threatens the termination of refugee pact.”
“If there is no visa liberalization, we will be forced to distance ourselves from the readmission agreement and the agreement of March 18,” he said, adding that his government “expected a specific date for the promised visa-free regime. It may be early or mid-October, but we expect a firm date.”
In terms of the original agreement—by which Turkey was supposed to halt the mass invasion into Greece (a task it has clearly only partially lived up to)—a clause was included which proposed the lifting of visa requirements from July 2016.
This part of the agreement failed to realize after it became clear that the Turkish government had not fulfilled the most basic of the preconditions, including biometric passports and the ending of its overtly anti-democratic security laws.
These goals remain unattained, and following the recent attempted coup in Turkey, even more “democratic” measures have been thrown out the window in that country as its government uses the failed uprising as an excuse to engage in the mass arrest of all its opponents.
The Turkish government has also now suspended the European Convention on Human Rights, a move which will unquestionably bring it into further conflict with its attempts to gain admission to the European Union.
However, Günther Oettinger, the European commissioner for digital economy and society, told German media in an interview published last week that there would definitely be no visa-free travel for Turks this year.
“Erdogan has to make concessions to us regarding the respect of the rule of law, and it doesn’t look like it is happening now,” Oettinger, the EU’s commissioner for the digital economy and society, told Funke Mediengruppe.
“It is not possible to strip MPs of their immunity to bully them. It is not possible to intimidate journalists. And it is not possible to withdraw thousands of unwanted judges from service.”
The Turkish government announced it had either arrested or suspended as many as 9,000 interior ministry officials, thousands of judges, military personnel and prosecutors, 77 regional governors, and 8,000 police—and has withdrawn the passports of at least 50,000 citizens.
Turkish President Recep Erdogan called the coup “a gift from God” that will allow him to “cleanse” the Turkish army.
Ultimatum that: close the border completely, no entry for everybody including turks, all boats return to Turkey, no flights to Europe for Turkish Airways, I forgot Junker-Drunker can only be tough with Britain, he sold Europe to muslims.
Yip whole thing is turning into a total bore Im getting tired of the ongoing nonsense, close the borders and stop offering a ferry service across the Med simple. Man Europeans are thick. Funny Germans should be use to border controls with their wall, funny how they could shoot their own people in the past but just let the enemy walk in now
Brussels will accept that demand and Turkey will get visa free travel as well granting immediate citizenship to 2.5 million “refugees” who will immediately head for Europe.
Britain must immediately withdraw from the open border arrangements imposed on them by the EU.
If the EU is not prepared to do it stop all payments to Brussels immediately as well. This will be a disaster for Britain in Turkey gets visa free travel privileges.
If the Turks were granted visa-free access into the EU, it’d be as though the “refugees” got it too. Huge masses of “refugees” settle in Turkey and get Turkish residence permits and even citizenship, don’t they? As such, in case of visa-free access for the Turks, the “refugees” would be able to enter the EU not only perfectly legally, but comfily, without the hassle of having to force their way through the Hungarian etc. border fences. By the way, the Turkish blackmail of the EU brings to mind the Late Roman Empire, when Rome employed barbarians for its defense and the barbarians would invade Rome. The Roman ineptitude makes one think of its equivalent in the EU today.
Okay so refund the 6 billion euros you two faced a****
That was money well spent then you stupid EU muppets!
Its all part of the washingtomb elite plan - europe people will be used/ manipulated/ sacrificed to get rid of russia. Europeans are serfs for the washingtomb elites. Those leaders at eu levels are working for them. They are paid enormous amount of money to betray the eu people. The same thing happened in ww2. With the debt level so high, this will happen sooner not later.
Close all access to their country, no flights, no ships, no imports and man the borders with heavily armed soldiers to prevent any trying to worm their way into Europe. There again, there is no person within the EU with the courage to sort this out, they’ll give in at some point.
But we are still paying Tribute to the Turkish Sultan presumably.