Erdogan Accuses Greece of Pushing Refugee Boats Back in Aegean
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Greece of intercepting boats of refugees in the Aegean Sea and pushing them back toward Turkey as the European Union comes under mounting pressure over migrants seeking to reach Europe.
“I don’t know what Greece will do if we open the doors,” Erdogan said in a thinly veiled reminder of his threat to unleash a migrant crisis at the doorstep of Europe, urging Greece to appreciate Turkey’s hosting of the world’s largest refugee population instead of blaming Ankara for the migration wave. “It is Greece that is condemning refugees to death by skewering their boats.”