"We Can Put Refugees On Buses": Leaked Memo Shows Erdogan Blackmailed Europe For Billions
If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past twelve months it’s that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is prepared to employ all manner of nefarious tactics in order to preserve his grip on power in Ankara.
Following unfavorable election results last June, Erdogan plunged the country into civil war be restarting a long simmering battle with the PKK and proceeded to crack down on journalists and anyone else critical of the ruling AKP. Ultimately, new elections were called and AKP put up a stronger showing, effectively paving the way for Erdogan to rewrite Turkey’s constitution and install an executive presidency.
But Erdogan’s bullying isn’t confined to his domestic political agenda. Greek media has obtained an internal memo which suggests the Turkish strongman effectively blackmailed the EU by demanding cash payments in exchange for efforts to curb the flow of migrants into Western Europe. “We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses,” Erdogan allegedly said, on the way to demanding $3 billion per year in aid.
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Submitted by Keep Talking Greece
In internal EU memo obtained by Greek media reveals the blatant Turkish blackmail on the refugee crisis. The memo contains a summary of the dialogue between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with European Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker and President of the European Council Donald Tusk on 16th November 2015 during the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey. The three Presidents were discussing the Action Plan to tackle the Refugees and Migrants Crisis.
According to the memo, the bargain was hard and Turkey demanded 30 billion euro from the European Union in order to refrain from sending refugees and migrants to Europe through Greece.
EU’s offer was 3 billion euro in two years, but Erdogan demanded 3 billion euro per year.
In addition, Ankara threatened, that if the EU does not link the refugee issue to Turkey’s EU accession then it would:
1. Send buses full of refugees to Europe via Greece and Bulgaria and will let 10,000-15,000 refugees drown on its shores.
2. Turkey does not accept the 3 billion euro for two years he had agreed with and wants 3 billion a year at least, otherwise there will be no agreement.
3. Requests opening all accession funds soon and non instructions from the European Commission.
4. The European Commission deliberately delayed the publication of Turkey’s progress report, at the same Erdogan’s request to help him win the election.
Overwhelmed with arrogance Erdogan complains that the EU treated Turkey like a fool for 53 years and did not allow it to become full EU member, he compares a country like Luxembourg with the size of small Turkish town.
He also claimed that “Greece received 400 billion euro from Europe” during the economic crisis and that in fact Turkey should get a huge amount of money too. The two EU Officials told him, not to compare the Greek economic crisis with the refugee crisis. He claimed that the 3 billion euro will go for the refugees and not for Turkey.
The three-party meeting ended without an agreement.
What is worth noting is that neither Juncker, nor Tusk informed the other EU-member states about Turkey’s approach. Also the media covering the G20 summit were apparently told that “the ball was rolling”. but in fact there was a total media blackout on the EU-Turkey negotiations.
And at the end of the EU-Turkey agreement and Action Plan …what? The EU is expected to start pouring to Turkey -as it seems – part of the 3 billion euro as of end of February or beginning of March.
All we can do is to wait and see how Ankara will deal with the refugees and migrants.
I suppose, the EU leaked this internal memo to the Greek media, after Turkey complained that it has not received any more yet.
Copies of internal EU memo in English uploaded here.
Official EU statement on EU-Turkey Agreement 29. Nov 2015 here. As we all know meanwhile, official statements tell half the truth. The other half is been revealed little by little. That’s why there is no transparency which time frame these 3 billion euro cover.
PS I also suppose that Erdogan’s mind is stuck at the old US aid formula and (Truman Dogma) for Turkey and Greece. And he believes that Brussels operates in the same geopolitical way. But the red danger is gone and there is no Communist Russia anymore so that Turkey & Greece will need protection from.
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Muslims only respect strength.
And virgins
http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2016/02/more-problems-at-fyrom-greek-border-...
I think this guy underestimates his level of importance.
Does he NOT know that he could be snuffed out in a CIA supplied cocaine heartbeat?
pods
Certainly ready for EU membership
NOT.
Kick those mother fuckers out of the EU and NATO, then feed them to Russia.
“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful" – Seneca the Younger
You guys really think it’s a Muslim vs Christian thing? Laughable. It’s an oil thing and uses religion as a cover because the oil companies and politicians rather give the blind zealots religion than profits.
The Saudi monarchy and the Turkish government are two of the most deserving governments to take out.
..but they are great friends of Obama and his clown troupe… birds of a feather and all that crap.
will let 10,000-15,000 refugees drown on its shores.
Reminds me of this scene from Blazing Saddles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JOGmXpe5I
So both Erdogan and Nuland say, "Fuck the EU!"
Odd bedfellows, eh.
Hey Erdogan is a class A cunt but you can't blame him for wanting to rape the corrupt EU for cash and favours becuase everybody else is doing it.
Exactly! In a sense Erdogan has a right to demand compensation for the refugee crisis created by the havok wreaked by NATO's wars in the Middle East (though he has contributed quite a bit to it himself in Syria lately). Why should Turkey foot the bill for the rest of the NATO members in Europe?
But what is really disgusting about this passing on of the hot potatoe, is the way in which millions of refugees have become the subject of horse trading between a bunch of lowlife world leaders.
Jug, I have no idea how you got 5 downers? wtf
Turkey: Europe's very own rapefugee.
"We don't negotiate with terrorists."
Thank God I don't live in Europe......Try your luck in Africa
Pods, even better is he doesn't make his major weapons and resupply could be a bit problematic if the Kurds decide to get feisty.....
@ Pods, How can I get life insurance on Erdogan, ala confessions of an economic hitman?
He is becoming a liability.
Incidentally, Perkins has just (2016 copyright) updated CoEHM with 15 new chapters covering the period since the first edition was published.
"Does he NOT know that he could be snuffed out in a CIA supplied cocaine heartbeat?"
Not while Barack Hussein Obama is POTUS, and Syria is still in play with the Russians holding off Obama's rebels.
Turkey is rightful white Christian territory and it's high time we reclaimed that land. Russia, Europe, and the U.S. should team up and gang bang the Turks into extinction. First deport them all from Europe, then exterminate them to the last child.
All of Turkey belongs to white Christiandom.
But I'm an "old style" Christian. The crusader type. Not enough of my kind around these days. Mostly cucked Catholics working to bring Moslems into the whitest parts of America and Europe so they can set up their child gang rape operations and prepare to go on mass shootings of non-Moslems.
Lol You’re a white ISIS. You’re an idiot.
Whatever... Europe is being be invaded...
better you know the history than call names...
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We did somethin' we both know it / We don't talk too much about it / Ain't no real big secret all the same / Somehow we get around it…
WISIS - Whites Intimidating Subhumans Into Submission.
WISIS yes!
"But I'm an "old style" Christian. The crusader type."
So, fuck off to Turkey then. Don't stand here flapping your arsehole.
Wot? You're still here?
Let me know where they station you, I'll send you some cookies.
Thick Willy hates Christians and is trying to be an MDB-like poser.
Except you aren't funny. Fuck off.
A good laughter to see this said:
So you are a christianist and not a Christian. Important to you is group membership, a gang mentality. Gang mind set and gang wars.
Christianism is all about the gang affiliation label and nothing to do with Christ. In fact, to be christianist requires disbelief in Christ. Not possible to reconcile this statement:
with this statement (which a christianist not recognises):
But hey, some people will always try to vomit ideological speech. Because it is their way of being part of the winning gang.
Um, the blood thirsty neocon Christian is strictly a new and western thing. Alfred the Great practiced mercy over and over with invading pagans. He was a Christian. You're just a dumb douche bag. The gospels are like 20 pages long and you haven't been able to read them apparently. Hey, moron, exterminating to the last child is very reminiscent of Herod not Christ. You're a special kind of retard.
who does not respect strength?
Ok.
Kick Turkey out of NATO and invade Turkey with NATO troops.
We can send them in busses, tanks, and planes.
Once we have captured Erdogan we can hand him over to the Iranians.
Once Turkey is out of NATO, the Russians will install a friendly strongman in the Eastern half of the country (and control The Straits), while allowing the Kurds to take over the Western Turkey. Easy as pie...
I think Putin would like to have a word with him 1st.
I think he would take care of this personally.
Erdogan is cruel, corrupt criminal.
Turkey: A Criminal State, a NATO StateIt is now openly discussed even in mainstream media the fact that Turkey has been intimately involved in fomenting and supporting the war on Syria, with its ultimate goal of the overthrow of the Syrian government and its replacement by a compliant proxy aligned with Turkish President Erdogan and the Muslim Brotherhood. That this is no longer a ‘conspiracy theory’ but a conspiracy fact not only vindicates my analysis over the last four years, but it also brings to the fore the nefarious role of a NATO member in stoking a brutal and bloody war for its own ends.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/turkey-a-criminal-state-a-nato-state/5497885
"Erdogan is cruel, corrupt criminal." european leaders not?
You forgot Congrezz and the White Hut.
Those buses are like the one from the movie "Speed".
Trusting a sleazy taqiyya muslim madman like Erdogan one indeed must be totally crazy. The crazy Angela M. fits the bill 100%.
Truly a NATO partner that Europe and the US can depend on - NOT. And just think, the EU could have also granted Turkey full EU membership.
The turkish Military Leadership has been gutted since Prince Edrogan came to power.
Turikish Army has much work to do. It is the only thing that will save them.
Syrian Refugees are not political pawns for the Military Industrial Complex. They are human beings in need of a safe place to live and I, for one, don't support victimizing Refugees that are merely attempting to find a safe place to live in peace and away from the antics of politicians and their goons in the MIC.
"attempting to find a safe place to live in peace"
You mean a safe place in which to grope White women, no?
What about white Christians in the Ukraine who have had MIC/Deep State/See Eye Aye/Soros State Dept create genocide in their country. They are actually supposedly "europeans" and yet they cannot flood into Germany? Why not?
cos purpose is control/kill them in place, take wealth
and they would also assimilate into Germany within a generation and make it stronger. They would also not add to the desired diversity.
They would not want people that have capacity for high intellect. Much better to bring in the drags.
Frankly seeing what is happening in the EU the Ukrainians are much better off in Ukraine. They need to go through their internal discovery and realize that it is better to have a strong independent nation full of nationalists than what the EU is doing. Next step for them is sort out their old grievances towards the Russians. Time to bury that past. Both are much better of as allies and trade partners.
most real Ukrainians have no problem with Russia
its the western pollacks and others not historical Ukrainian descent and some weak minded useful idiots
that brainwashed crazy as hell expect fantasy of expectations fed them by propaganda
Yes, Ukrainians better off keep home and fix it...will need Russia to achieve that
EU has nothing for average Ukrainian..the example is proven since Maidan
Eurocrats will put into dark ages
'Masks of the Revolution' English subs
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=30e_1454796647
English sub versions keep being deleted, then reposted..
Most are not Syrians, but from many other countries including very many Africans
Estimates are as low as 1 of 10 are Syrian
"Refugees that are merely attempting to find a safe place to live in peace and away from the antics of politicians and their goons in the MIC."
Kuwait, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, KSA, Jordan, Indonesia, OK mou, I'll bite whats wrong with these choices?