Turkey's President Erdogan calls on NATO to show solidarity with Turkey and to collaborate with no discrimination
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels, Belgium, March 9, 2020.
Turkey has fought Syrian-based threats and Daesh for nearly a decade now and is the only NATO member state to see soldiers killed, said Erdogan. “Allies are prepared to continue to support Turkey and explore what more to do,” he said, reaffirming the bloc’s commitment to partnership. Erdogan and Stoltenberg's meeting lasted around one hour at the Permanent Delegation of Turkey to the European Union, amid
Last month Turkey announced it would no longer stop asylum seekers from reaching Europe, complaining that the European Union had failed to keep its pledges under a 2016 deal on migrant, and warning of a refugee wave coming from Idlib.Refugees in no man's land between Greece and Turkey near Edirne show marks on their backs which they report sustaining in beatings by Greek border officials. March 5, 2020.
EU countries are still dealing with the political fallout from a wave of mass migration five years ago.
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