EU expects Turkey to respect migrant agreement, says EPP chief
The head of the European People’s Party, Manfred
Weber, on Friday called on Turkey to abide by its agreement with the European
Union for stemming migration flows into the block and said that it “will not
tolerate illegal border crossings into Europe.”
“We support the Greek government’s decision to
maintain control of their border with Turkey. We expect the Turkish authorities
to respect our agreement and reestablish order,” Weber said in a post of
Twitter.
“We are ready to help the victims of Idlib but we
will not tolerate illegal border crossings into Europe,” he said in reference
to hundreds of thousands of Syrian fleeing airstrikes by Russian-backed
government forces.
His comments came as hundreds of migrants and
refugees gathered on Turkey’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria after a Turkish
government official on Thursday said that Ankara will no longer prevent migrant
flows into the European Union
