Through the German magazine Spiegel, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs Miltiadis Varvitsiotis sent a loud message that Europe must not appear to fear Erdogan’s migration-related threats.
In his statements in the latest issue of Der Spiegel, which includes a special report on the migration crisis and the EU-Turkey agreement on refugees, Mr. Varvitsiotis reacted to the Turkish president’s recent threats that he would flood Europe with migrants, highlighting that Turkey is converting the migration issue into a foreign policy tool and using migrants as leverage.
The Greek Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs also sent a message to the European partners that “Europe must not appear to fear Erdogan's threats at all.”
January 5, 2020