Erdogan threatens to send refugees in the EU, as NATO steps

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Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday threatened to send millions of refugees in Turkey, EU Member States, NATO pledged to deploy ships in the Aegean to facilitate migrant crisis.

Erdogan to accelerate the termination of the western migration policy in a speech in Ankara, confirming had threatened EU leaders at the November summit that Turkey could say "goodbye" to refugees.

Alarm is growing in EU capitals that thousands of migrants still crossing daily Aegean from Turkey after over one million the dangerous sea voyage last year.

NATO agreed to send a naval group on Sea to fight people-smuggling feeding the influx of immigrants, while Greece is considering sending someone got in the water back to Turkey.

Turkey, already house some three million refugees, it is also within the EU and UN pressure to take in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing regime advances the Aleppo region.

Erdogan said Turkey had every right to peat refugees from the country if he so wished.

"We have the word" stupid "written on our foreheads. We will be patient, but we will do what we must. I do not think that airplanes and buses are there for nothing, "Erdogan said.

"He defended the rights of Turkey '

Greek website euro2day.gr was reported that Erdogan made the threat to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in November, quoting him as saying:

"We open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria at any time and refugees who stepped on the bus."

"I am proud of what I said. We defend the rights of Turkey and refugees. And will their (Europeans) said: "Sorry, will open its doors and say" goodbye "immigrants", "Erdogan said in a speech Thursday.

Is Turkey claiming ishosting 2,5 million refugees from Syria civil war and hundreds of thousands of Iraq.

The European Union has agreed to pay in Ankara three billion euros in financial aid for the refugees, but the funds have yet to be delivered over two-and-a-half months after it was agreed.

Erdogan said Turkey had already spent about $ 9 billion for hosting refugees and lashed out at the United Nations for pressing to let tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing fighting in Aleppo gathered at the border.

The NATO deployment follows a request this week by members of the Alliance of Germany, Greece and Turkey for help in tackling Europe's largest migrant crisis since the second world war.

According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on February 7, 70 365 immigrants arrived by sea in Greece from Turkey, an average of 2,000 a day. He lost 319 on the way.

To send back

Among them was an eight-year-old girl whose body was found by Turkish security forces Thursday washed up on the shore near Didim in Aydin region.

This had been dead for some 15 days without clothes and her body had started to rot, the Radikal said on-line daily.

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said NATO "now directs the permanent naval group to move the Aegean without delay and start the maritime surveillance activities."

"It's stopping and pushing (refugee boats) ... but on the critical monitoring to help combat trafficking and criminal networks."

The group consists of three ships under German command.

German Defense Minister Ursula von der Laien said "there is a clear agreement with Turkey that took refugees number will be sent back to Turkey."

Greece, meanwhile, is also considering the possibility of sending back immigrants who board the Aegean Sea in Turkey.

A government source told AFP Athens is considering whether to declare Turkey "safe third country" that would allow it to return any asylum seekers embarking waters.

"No decision has yet been taken", but "what we see," the source said, adding that while Greece could make the decision unilaterally, Turkey should agree to put in place.
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