BERLIN, Mar 4 (NNN-DPA) – German Federal Government spokesperson, Steffen Seibert, said that, the way to the European Union (EU) from Turkey, is not open for refugees and migrants.
“At the moment we are experiencing an extremely worrying situation on the European Union’s external borders with Turkey, on land and at sea. We are seeing refugees and migrants, who are told by the Turkish side that the way to the EU is now open, and of course it is not,” said Seibert.
Seibert said that Turkey’s decision to open the border with the EU for refugees, put those people in an extremely difficult situation, and also has been presenting Greece with enormous challenges.
German Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, warned that the situation on the Turkish-Greek border would be worse than that of the 2015 refugee crisis, when over a million refugees entered the EU in the wake of the civil war in Syria.
German newspaper, Die Welt, reported that, during a meeting of the German Union Party’s parliamentary faction, Seehofer said, as the situation is precarious, it is far from being correctable if mistakes are made now.
Seehofer said, Germany has to get it under control, otherwise the 2015 refugee crisis would repeat. He also called for security of the EU’s external border and made it clear that the EU’s borders are not open.
Tens of thousands of refugees and migrants gathered on the Turkish side of the border, after Ankara said, it could no longer prevent them from reaching Europe.
Turkey decided to open its border gates for illegal migrants, after at least 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike, in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, the last rebel-held stronghold.– NNN-DPA