CEMO: Erdogan exploits Covid-19 to smuggle illegal immigrants to Italy

Dr. Abdel-Rahim Ali, Egypt’s MP and chairman of the Center for Middle East Studies in Paris (CEMO), confirmed that Recep Tayyip Erdogan exploits Coronavirus, to smuggle a large number of illegal immigrants through boats to Italy.

In a statement, Ali said that one of the illegal immigrants posted video documenting smuggling migrants from Turkey to the Italian coasts.

Ali added that the Turkish territories still represent a preferred platform for smuggling gangs.

It should be noted that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had recently announced that his country intends to resettle a million refugees in northern Syria and that it may reopen the path for migrants to Europe unless it receives appropriate international support for the plan.

An estimated "six billion euros" in the past few years, within the framework of an agreement between Europe and Turkey to combat illegal immigration.

The number of illegal immigrants decreased sharply after the European Union and Ankara implemented an agreement in March 2016 to stop the influx of refugees. However, there has recently been an increase in the number of migrants from Turkey, which confirms the existence of a hidden intention by the Turkish regime to extort financially the European state through the illegal immigration paper.