Turkey Still Wants to Wield Threat of Refugee Crisis Over the EU

  • Erdogan visiting Brussels on Monday and keeping pressure on
  • Visit comes amid bubbling tension on Turkish-Greek border
An elderly woman sits at the entrance of her tent at the temporary refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on March 5.Photographer: Konstantinos Tsakalidis/Bloomberg
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Turkey isn’t ready to let go of its threat to unleash a migration crisis on the European Union.

Ahead of high-level meetings in Brussels Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece to open its borders to refugees, a call likely to further stir tensions with the EU as it grapples with the damage unleashed by the spread of the deadly and unpredictable coronavirus.