Merkel urges EU to 'divide the burden' of refugee crisis with Turkey

[atatwolf]

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during the 'Tag der Deutschen Industrie' event (German Industry Day 2015) (EPA Photo)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to "divide the burden" of the refugee crisis with Turkey.

"We must divide the burden on Turkey, caused by harboring more than two million refugees, between Turkey and Europe," Merkel told reporters on Tuesday before a parliamentary group meeting with Horst Seehoferher, chairman of her coalition government's Bavarian partner, the Christian Social Union.

Merkel also highlighted that close partnerships, especially with countries like Turkey, were needed to legalize the status of asylum seekers.

Last week, the German chancellor described cooperation with Turkey as vital to tackling the refugee crisis and said that she hoped for intensified talks after Turkey's general election.

"After these elections, we can also intensify our bilateral visits," she said. "I firmly believe that the refugee influx can only be diminished by the collective action of the EU, Greece and Turkey."

Turkey has been home to around 2.5 million refugees, and the country has so far spent $8 billion on refugees, while support from other world countries has amounted to only $417 million.

Also on Tuesday, Merkel said that she did not wish renewed military tensions in the Balkans because of the recent refugee influx into Europe.

"I don't want any more military tensions there," she said during an event of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party in southern Darmstadt city.

Merkel criticized the closing of borders to refugees by some European states, saying such actions could not solve the refugee crisis.

"I do not want to be pessimistic but disputes could turn more quickly than we think into fights, then fights into other forms that none of us ever desires," she warned.

The chancellor further said that the closure of Austrian border would lead refugees to attempt crossing into Germany from other neighboring countries.

Merkel faces growing criticism at home over her government's open-door policy for asylum seekers as a record 577,000 refugees arrived in Germany between January and September. Around one million are expected by the end of the year.

Germany has taken in the largest number of refugees as Europe experiences the greatest movement of people since World War II, a development that has been exploited by right-wing groups.
Merkel urges EU to divide the burden of refugee crisis with Turkey - Daily Sabah

Great woman.

 

[CekilinBenDoktorum]

Merkel is a good politician. We must make arangement with germany and solve that asylum problem. The syrian refugees need a perspective.

 

[type93]

Take only women and children and give the ones most likely to be terrorists to turkey. That way, if the suspicions turn out to be true, nothing of value will be lost

 

[TurkeyForever]

Take only women and children and give the ones most likely to be terrorists to turkey. That way, if the suspicions turn out to be true, nothing of value will be lost

Canada should take all the males, nobody cares about Canada anyway.

 

[type93]

Canada should take all the males, nobody cares about Canada anyway.

As the sole cause of everything wrong in the middle east( and much of the world) turkey must accept the consequences of its failed policies no matter how painful those consequences may be

 

[TurkeyForever]

As the sole cause of everything wrong in the middle east( and much of the world) turkey must accept the consequences of its failed policies no matter how painful those consequences may be

And Canada needs to hide behind USA as it always does.

 

[type93]

And Canada needs to hide behind USA as it always does.

Turkey hides behind USA as well you mong

 

[fox 2]

Take only women and children and give the ones most likely to be terrorists to turkey. That way, if the suspicions turn out to be true, nothing of value will be lost

Which part of your body wrote this i don't know but you better if get some beer and watch hockey. By the way you can't provoke us with writing ''turkey'', ''canadian''.

 

[xenon54 out]

Which part of your body wrote this i don't know but you better if get some beer and watch hockey. By the way you can't provoke us with writing ''turkey'', ''canadian''.

A Mod checked his ip, it seems he is a pkk sympathisant.

 

[mike2000 is back]

As the sole cause of everything wrong in the middle east( and much of the world) turkey must accept the consequences of its failed policies no matter how painful those consequences may be

What wrong with you and Turkey? All your comments on here is about bashing Turkey NO MATTER THE TOPIC AT HAND.

Moreover you are obviously no canadian.lol. Type93 everybody knows which that is(and you are) from as well.

Coming back to topic, well Merkel's policy on this migrant crisis has been a disaster. I'm really surprised she mishandled this issue so disastrously. I wont be surprised to see her or her party lose the next generalelections because of this as situation gets worse with immigrants flooding german cities/countryside and all the tensions that comes with. 1million refugees(and according to statistics just 1/3rd of them are genuine syrians fleeing war, the rest are economic migrants from other peaceful middle eastern/north african and south asian countries.lol) intake in just under a year? What will be the figure in 3-4 years from now? Almost 5 million at this rate. Good luck with that Deutschland. @Bundeswehr .

 

[Steve781]

A good idea would be to stop Albanians, Bosnians,Iranians, Pakistanis etc pretending to be Syrian.

 

[Jäger]

What wrong with you and Turkey? All your comments on here is about bashing Turkey NO MATTER THE TOPIC AT HAND.

Moreover you are obviously no canadian.lol. Type93 everybody knows which that is(and you are) from as well.

Coming back to topic, well Merkel's policy on this migrant crisis has been a disaster. I'm really surprised she mishandled this issue so disastrously. I wont be surprised to see her or her party lose the next generalelections because of this as situation gets worse with immigrants flooding german cities/countryside and all the tensions that comes with. 1million refugees(and according to statistics just 1/3rd of them are genuine syrians fleeing war, the rest are economic migrants from other peaceful middle eastern/north african and south asian countries.lol) intake in just under a year? What will be the figure in 3-4 years from now? Almost 5 million at this rate. Good luck with that Deutschland. @Bundeswehr .

we are trying but its difficult since some immigrants are causing chaos