Turkey had no reasons to involve itself in this, and yet it did. The number of flights from Istanbul to Minsk grew significantly during the crisis from 7 to 28 per week and Istanbul became one of the most important hubs for migrants recruited by the Belarusian regime.
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Warsaw was not that quick in accusing Turkey, if you take under consideration the facts that the problem arised in July and that it was raised during meetings between Poland and Turkey's ministers of foreign affairs in October.
Just to clarify: I am not saying that Turkey did this consciously, the situation might have been a product of many reasons (legal doubts, bad signaling, different perception of Turkey, a country which proudly hosts 4 mln refugees). Thus I do not support accusations towards Turkey
Yet, if we pretend that the situation came totally out of nowhere and that Turkey did not even realise that the problem exists, we are misleading the public.
And one last point on why the pressure on Turkey increased. The situation on the border changed tremendously during
And one last point on why the pressure on Turkey increased. The situation on the border changed tremendously during
the last few days. The migrants have been organised in huge groups, trained by the Belarusian regime officials which later made them destroy Polish border infrastructure, breaking also the Geneva Convention. This is why both Poland and the EU got more serious and they signaled
to Turkey that they need its immediate support, not inaction and working groups that may think of the solution.
It's great that Turkey finally helped and you won't hear from me any complaint that it did it too late due to abovementioned circumstances.
It's great that Turkey finally helped and you won't hear from me any complaint that it did it too late due to abovementioned circumstances.
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