The Washington Post reported that thousands of immigrants who were permitted by Turkey to cross land or sea to Greece found themselves in direct confrontation with Europe, which no longer had room for their hopes and dreams, but rather decreased sympathy for their plight.
In an article by author Ishan Tharoor, the newspaper blames some of the current instability on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who, despite acknowledging that Turkey faces a "very big" challenge in the Syrian province of Idlib, said that Turkey should express this dissatisfaction at the dialogue table with the Union European instead of using refugee paper.
Merkel, who was speaking to reporters last Monday, said she did not believe the behavior of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government "is the way forward" in resolving the crisis.
An effective weapon for nationalists:
Former Slovenian President Danilo Turk left the decision of the German chancellor, saying that he "made political speech in Europe more difficult and gave nationalists and fanatical elements an effective weapon."
According to Tharoor, there is a split between European governments on the way to deal with asylum seekers who reside between its midst and its borders.
The author of the article says that Merkel's decision in 2015 to receive Syrian refugees in her country irritated the nationally oriented governments in Central and Eastern Europe and ignited reactions from extremist right-wing currents in the West of the old continent.
The Washington Post article described the crisis regarding asylum seekers as part of a larger problem that worries the European Union, and that is the absence of consensus among European governments, which would hinder its ability to act in the international arena.
Europe did not respond to the plight of refugees,
and Ishan Tharoor considered in his article in the American newspaper the agreement concluded by the European Union in 2016 with Turkey, according to which the latter closed its borders with Greece in the face of immigrants, that it was motivated by a political interest and did not address the plight of refugees or the bloody conflict that forced them to flee their homes.
Tharoor returns to quote phrases from a speech that former Slovenian President Danilo Turk made this week to the Washington Post, saying that "the failure of the European Union in 2015 to adopt a systematic approach and the subsequent improvisation of the agreement with Turkey, all factors that were not established for a platform suitable for dealing with Migration crises. "
Turk added that all of these efforts were "built with the hope that the problem will clear one way or another, but this did not happen."