Sun 08 March 2020:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday has called the Greek government on Sunday to open the border gates for refugees amassed at the frontier and allow them to cross into other European countries.
In searing remarks against Greece’s recent behavior towards asylum seekers trying to cross from Turkey’s northwestern border, he said: “No one is raising their voice against Greece’s inhumane treatment of asylum seekers. No one is condemning the persecution of women asylum-seekers on the Turkish-Greek border, their being shot at or beaten,” said Erdogan.
Erdoğan added that he would meet EU officials in Belgium on Monday to discuss the situation of asylum seekers on the Turkish-Greek border.
Lambasting silence in the face of hardships, abuse and killing of women across the globe, Turkey’s president on Sunday spoke against the “hypocrisy” of the world celebrating International Women’s Day.
“It is hypocrisy that the world with its callused conscience celebrates March 8 International Women’s Day,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at an event in Istanbul celebrating Turkey’s “Hero Women.”
Despite all the women and children dying in Syria, the issue failed to get proper attention, he said, adding that Turkey’s aims in the war-torn never included attempting to “invade or annex Syrian territory.”
Erdogan assured that Turkey would accept all solutions in Syria that would safeguard the people of Idlib province, as well as Turkey’s borders.
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