BY GREGORY PAPPAS
With relations with Europe rapidly deteriorating, Turkey is threatening to send upwards of 3,000 refugees per day to Greece in what intelligence officials in Greece described as “blackmail” against the European Union.
According to details uncovered by Greek intelligence officials and published in The Times (of London), thousands of dinghies and motorboatswere massing along Turkey’s western coast, waiting for Turkish authorities to loosen the restriction of movement that’s been in place since a deal was struck with the EU last year.
Intelligence officials cited in The Times, from a story that originated in Greece’s Proto Thema, claim that the plans had the support of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, who is involved in a heated war of words with the European Union over a European Parliament vote to halt EU accession talks with Turkey.
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