{"id":203320,"date":"2020-03-03T13:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203320"},"modified":"2020-03-05T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T08:23:00","slug":"erdogan-using-humans-as-weapon-against-eu-austrias-kurz-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=203320","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan Using Humans as \u2018Weapon\u2019 Against EU, Austria\u2019s Kurz Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Boris Groendahl \u2013 Bloomberg March 3, 2020<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_129838\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Up-to-10000-Syrian-and-Iraqi-refugees-stuck-at-the-Idomeni-border-crossing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-129838\" class=\"wp-image-129838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Up-to-10000-Syrian-and-Iraqi-refugees-stuck-at-the-Idomeni-border-crossing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Up-to-10000-Syrian-and-Iraqi-refugees-stuck-at-the-Idomeni-border-crossing.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Up-to-10000-Syrian-and-Iraqi-refugees-stuck-at-the-Idomeni-border-crossing-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-129838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Syrian and Iraqi at a refugee camp in Idomeni, northern Greece. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of using migrants who are amassed on the Greek border as a \u201cweapon\u201d against the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThis rush is not an accident, it\u2019s organized,\u201d Kurz told journalists in Vienna. \u201cThose people are used by Erdogan as a playball, as a weapon, to apply pressure on the European Union.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The European Union must stand united behind Greece, and protect the borders as well as provide humanitarian help, Kurz said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Kurz said Erdogan \u201cconsciously organized\u201d the action, that \u201cbuses are provided, migrants are informed, there\u2019s a deliberate attempt to organize this rush on Greece.\u201d The refugees at the border aren\u2019t from Idlib or from other regions in Syria, but have been in Turkey for many years, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-03\/erdogan-using-humans-as-weapon-against-eu-austria-s-kurz-says\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis rush is not an accident, it\u2019s organized,\u201d Kurz told journalists in Vienna. \u201cThose people are used by Erdogan as a playball, as a weapon&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,58,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Current_Affairs","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203323,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203320\/revisions\/203323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}