Kurdish | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com ...conecting the community Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:29:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.10 http://www.insideojodu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/favicon.ico Kurdish | InsideOjodu https://www.insideojodu.com 32 32 Hungary will use force if Turkey ‘opens the gates’ to refugees https://www.insideojodu.com/hungary-will-use-force-if-turkey-opens-the-gates-to-refugees/ https://www.insideojodu.com/hungary-will-use-force-if-turkey-opens-the-gates-to-refugees/#respond Thu, 17 Oct 2019 21:29:41 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=8174 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday said his country would “use force” to…

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday said his country would “use force” to protect its borders if Turkey followed through on its threat to “open the gates” of Europe to refugees.

Orban, a staunch opponent of mass migration, made the comments during an appearance on Hungary’s HirTV.

“The next weeks will decide what Turkey does with these people,” Orban said, referencing the 3.6 million Syrian refugees Turkey is currently hosting.

At the peak of the migration crisis in 2015, hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees entered Europe by way of the Balkan route. Hungary, which was on the frontlines of that wave, implemented strict border controls and a fence across its border.

Turkey agreed to take in many of those refugees and ease the burden on Europe when it signed a deal with the EU in 2016 to seal off the Aegean route. But Turkey has received international condemnation for its invasion of northeast Syriafollowing President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. forces there.

Last week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to unleash refugees into Europe if the EU called Turkey’s invasion of Syria an “occupation.”

“We will open the gates and send 3.6 million refugees your way,” Erdogan reportedly said while speaking with officials from his ruling AK Party, according to Reuters.

Depending on how events unfold in the coming weeks, Orban said, Turkey will either take its refugees “back to Syria or set them off towards Europe.”

“If Turkey chooses the latter, these people will arrive at Hungary’s southern border in huge masses,” Orban said. “If Turkey sets off further hundreds of thousands on top of this, then we will need to use force to protect the Hungarian border and the Serbian-Hungarian frontier and I do not wish for anyone that we should need to resort to that.”

Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reached a cease-fire agreement between Turkey and Kurdish-led forces in Syria, following a meeting with Erdogan in Ankara on Thursday.

The deal is for a 120-hour cease-fire, during which time the Kurdish-led forces could pull back. Turkish military operations will pause during that time, and the operation itself will come to an end upon the completion of the Kurdish withdrawal. Pence said a safe zone between the two sides will be established.

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Car bomb kills 2 near Turkish-Syrian border https://www.insideojodu.com/car-bomb-kills-2-near-turkish-syrian-border/ https://www.insideojodu.com/car-bomb-kills-2-near-turkish-syrian-border/#respond Fri, 05 Jul 2019 21:37:05 +0000 https://www.insideojodu.com/?p=5578 A car bomb detonated near Turkey’s border with Syria on Friday, killing two Syrians…

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A car bomb detonated near Turkey’s border with Syria on Friday, killing two Syrians and critically injuring a third inside the vehicle.

The blast went off inside the vehicle at about 2,460 feet meters from a local government office in the neighboring town of Reyhanli, according to the Anadolu Agency, also adding that two people were also wounded as a result of the explosion. The Turkish news agency stated several ambulances and police vehicles were sent to the scene.

“It is clear that there was a bomb inside the vehicle,” said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The findings at the moment indicated that it was more linked to terrorism… Our colleagues are looking into who was behind this.”

Erdogan, however, did not say the number of injuries that was caused by the explosion, but Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said that the blast was caused by a hand-made bomb which set-off while the car was in transit.

In May 2013, twin car bomb attacks in Reyhanli took the lives of 52 people, including Syrian refugees. The Turkish government blamed Syria’s intelligence agency for what was one of the deadliest attacks in their modern history.

In 2015 and 2016, Turkey was also badly hit by a series of attacks blamed on ISIS and Kurdish militants that left 300 dead.

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