“Unfortunately, Alexandroupolis is not just one base – all of Greece has been transformed into a US base. I did not manage to count how many American bases there are in Greece. If we compile them, we get the sense that all of Greece is a US base,” he said.
Even if the EU does decide to offer more money, it’s not clear it will be sufficient to assuage Turkey or be the kind of support that Ankara, which is simultaneously involved in conflicts in Syria and Libya, really wants.
Families started bonfires as the sound of crying babies blended with the muezzin’s call to prayer blasting from a towering white mosque.
Meanwhile, the Citizen’s Protection Ministry is concerned about information indicating that 500,000 Afghani nationals have migrated to Turkey from Iran and Iraq, which has fueled concerns about a prospective increase of pressure at Greece’s northern borders.
