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Yazidi migrants rescued days after being stuck on the Turkish-Greek border
2023-06-06
[Rudaw] Greece rescued tens of migrants colonists stranded on an islet on the Ottoman Turkish-Greek border over the past two days, after sending a video message across social media asking for help.

On Saturday a video of a group of over 80 Yazidi migrants colonists emerged on social media claiming to be stranded on a small island in the Maritsa (Evros) River between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
 and Greece for four days, the migrants colonists were appealing to Greece to admit them into its territory.

Murad Ismael, the co-founder of the US-based Yazda Foundation, which advocates for the Yazidi population globally, first posted the video demanded for immediate intervention as the immigrants colonists were in dire condition.

Ismael later posted on Sunday that he contacted sources in Greece who reported that the Greek authorities "have taken the Yazidis from the islet to Greece".

A source from Greece’s citizen ministry on Sunday told AFP that they would rescue the stranded migrants colonists after the Ottoman Turkish authorities did not respond to their calls to take them back.

Greece is considered a gateway to Western Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
for migrants colonists passing through Turkey, including many Kurds taking dangerous land or sea journeys with the hopes of making better lives for themselves and their families. But with the extensive patrolling on the Aegean Sea, asylum-seekers now opt to use the Maritsa River as a crossing point to the borders of the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 (EU).

In 2016, Turkey and the EU signed a multi-billion euro deal aimed at containing a wave of migration into Europe. Under the deal, Ankara agreed to stop people from travelling irregularly to Europe and to accept failed asylum seekers from Europe. In exchange, Turkey received funds and Ottoman Turkish citizens could travel to Europe visa-free.

However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
 Greece says over the past few years, Turkey has not adhered to the terms agreed upon in the 2016 deal.

"Since [March 2020], Ottoman Turkish authorities are not cooperating and they are not accepting people back to their territory," Marios Kaleas, Greece’s director of asylum services, told Rudaw last month.

Athens has been accused by human rights
...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty...
 organizations of assaulting migrants colonists and pushing them back across the border into Turkey. In 2022, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Greece had violated the EU’s human rights convention in its practice of forcing boats of asylum seekers back to Turkey.

Greece built a five meters high, 38 kilometers long steel fence across the river to prevent immigrants colonists from entering the country through Turkey, the previous conservative government which is expected to win an election on June 25, has decided to extend the fence by 35 kilometers.
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