Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, frustrated over insufficient funding, threatened to send millions of refugees from Turkey to the EU. NATO agreed to send a patrol of three ships to aid Turkish refugee transport. NATO’s Supreme Commander in Europe claimed that Russia and the Assad regime in Syria were using mass migration as an “aggressive strategy against Europe”. The March 2016 EU-Turkey Deal traded irregular migration of Syrian refugees with refugees already in Europe.
2021-02-05