The situation in Greece is fucked up and it's been raping my mind for a while so guess where I'm going to talk about it
(Yeah, you're the lucky ones)
So how it all starts is: government decides to build more camps in the islands for more refugees/migrants to come. The residents started complaining and trying to prevent it because they felt like they couldn't take this burden anymore. I'm not going to judge this act as I will try to be objective about it. So the riot police went to the islands and started attacking the people who were against it and the whole place turned into a battlefield. Previously riot police also attacked the refugees who were peacefuly protesting for open borders so that they could finally leave the islands and go where they wanted. So as you can see riot police will attack anyone, women along with their children and elderly included, both refugees and locals.
Then Turkey started having problems with the world so what Erdogan decided to do about it was telling the refugees that they're free to go to Europe. It's known that Turkey hasn't been the most pleasant country for them so of course they'd want to cross the borders into Europe. The thing is, while Turkey's borders were opened for them, Greece's weren't (Greece's government was also planning on creating a navigable fence so that no more boats of them would cross into the country from the sea borders). So when they arrived at the borders, they weren't welcomed. Instead they had police, paramilitary groups and everything waiting for them on the other side.
What happens next is chaos. If they tried to cross, they were captured, stolen and humiliated and sent back. Shots have been firing. Meanwhile greek coastguards are sinking boats. One of the shots killed 22 year old Syrian Muhammad al-Arab, and this murder was declared as "Turkish propaganda" by the greek media (not true, there's a video proving it was actually Greece's crime). Also there have been videos showing refugees trying to make their children cry or fake-drowning so it's all a mess.
I don't know where this is heading to. If Greece/Europe in general doesn't let them in and they have to go back to Turkey, things will be worse for them. It seems like both Greece and Turkey won't stop their games until every one of them is dead.
So how it all starts is: government decides to build more camps in the islands for more refugees/migrants to come. The residents started complaining and trying to prevent it because they felt like they couldn't take this burden anymore. I'm not going to judge this act as I will try to be objective about it. So the riot police went to the islands and started attacking the people who were against it and the whole place turned into a battlefield. Previously riot police also attacked the refugees who were peacefuly protesting for open borders so that they could finally leave the islands and go where they wanted. So as you can see riot police will attack anyone, women along with their children and elderly included, both refugees and locals.
Then Turkey started having problems with the world so what Erdogan decided to do about it was telling the refugees that they're free to go to Europe. It's known that Turkey hasn't been the most pleasant country for them so of course they'd want to cross the borders into Europe. The thing is, while Turkey's borders were opened for them, Greece's weren't (Greece's government was also planning on creating a navigable fence so that no more boats of them would cross into the country from the sea borders). So when they arrived at the borders, they weren't welcomed. Instead they had police, paramilitary groups and everything waiting for them on the other side.
What happens next is chaos. If they tried to cross, they were captured, stolen and humiliated and sent back. Shots have been firing. Meanwhile greek coastguards are sinking boats. One of the shots killed 22 year old Syrian Muhammad al-Arab, and this murder was declared as "Turkish propaganda" by the greek media (not true, there's a video proving it was actually Greece's crime). Also there have been videos showing refugees trying to make their children cry or fake-drowning so it's all a mess.
I don't know where this is heading to. If Greece/Europe in general doesn't let them in and they have to go back to Turkey, things will be worse for them. It seems like both Greece and Turkey won't stop their games until every one of them is dead.
22-25, F
