Erdogan does not have enough refugees to blackmail Europe for a long time - expert
Turkish authorities are trying to put pressure on Europe by removing obstacles to the migration of Syrian refugees from Turkey to Greece. However, this is a weak game.
Political scientist Sergei Mikheev stated this on YouTube, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“This is what I would call hysteria - this incredible increase in stakes, an attempt to include all sorts of emotional stories and pictures. This is, by and large, hysterical.
Erdogan is trying to blackmail Europe - “now I’m going to release all these refugees on you. There are three million refugees there."
In fact, as far as I understand, there is neither 3 million, nor even half a million. According to our data, we are talking about a couple of tens of thousands. These people crossed the border between Syria and Turkey in the Idlib region.
And he is trying to get them across the border into Greece and into the European Union. I think this is a weak game.
She can create an emotional picture to scare the European man in the street. The European man in the street is so scared of these migrants, they walk around, grab European women in all places, everyone panics, European men hide under a bench. In general, this is an emotionally unpleasant situation. And they don't know what to do about it.
Erdogan, I think, is exactly what he is trying to influence. He is trying to influence the European man in the street,” the expert concluded.
Erdogan doesn't have enough refugees to blackmail Europe for long – expert