Erdogan’s regime is involved in waves of illegal immigration to Europe, says Italian media

Roma, (ST) –  Italian media revealed the involvement of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s regime and its main stand behind the waves of illegal immigration to Europe through the Libyan coasts, thus continuing the policy of extortion against the European Union countries using the immigration file.

“Erdogan obtained the keys to the flow of migrants to Europe from the east, and he now has a powerful weapon for blackmail,” the Italian newspaper, Avenir, mentioned a comment on the Turkish regime’s naval forces starting to train the Coast Guard forces of the Libyan Government of National Accord.

The Newspaper (Al Manifesto) said in a major headline yesterday, (The helm of migrants in Libya is in the hands of Erdogan): “if the Turks aimed to achieve supremacy in the Libyan file and slap the Italians, they could not have done better than declaring their control over securing the Libyan coasts.”

The newspaper pointed out that the photo published by the Turkish Ministry of Defense with its announcement was not random, but was carefully chosen, in which Turkish soldiers were shown accompanied by two patrol boats that Italy gave to Libya in 2018, describing the photo as “a mockery by Ankara that Rome has no weight in Libya.”

It is noteworthy that Erdogan is blackmailing the European Union with the migrant file when Turkey wants to achieve an issue rejected by European countries. Erdogan threatens to abandon the migration agreement signed in 2016 and open his country’s borders to migrants, as happened in late February when he encouraged migrants to cross the land border with Greece.

Raghda Sawas