Greece Steps Up Türkiye Slander As Its Crimes Increase: FM Cavushoglu
Date
10/17/2022 6:05:59 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) As Greece commits more crimes, it is totally normal that the
country is stepping up its slander of Türkiye, Foreign Minister
Mevlut Cavushoglu said on Monday after Athens recently targeted
Ankara over its alleged treatment of migrants, reports citing
.
Speaking at a press conference following the extraordinary
meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of
Turkic States (OTS) in Istanbul, Cavushoglu touched on the issue,
saying:“One has to be truly shameless and reckless to try to
appear right even in the most unfair situation like Greece.”
Cavushoglu's remarks come a day after Greek Migration and Asylum
Minister Notis Mitarachi accused Türkiye of mistreating 92 refugees
on the Greek-Turkish border on Twitter, and also shared a
photograph of immigrants who were robbed, stripped naked and
abandoned.
“Frontex is being an accomplice to Greece,” Cavushoglu said
further, referring to the European Border and Coast Guard
Agency.
Employees of Frontex have been covering up Greece's illegal
pushbacks of migrants to Türkiye in violation of peoples'
“fundamental rights,” a much-anticipated report by the European
Union's anti-fraud watchdog (OLAF) said last week.
OLAF investigators poured over information from open sources,
media reports but also documents from Frontex, the European
Commission and interviews with 20 witnesses to investigate
accusations of possible involvement and/or covering up of illegal
pushbacks and accusations of misconduct or irregularities.
Frontex officers also may not have reported alleged pushbacks
due to fear of repercussions from Greece, the report said. In one
case, the report said the EU border agency relocated one of its
planes apparently“to avoid witnessing incidents in the Aegean
Sea.”
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