The New York Times published an article titled We Are Like Animals’: Inside Greece’s Secret Site for Migrants, wrongly claiming that Greece is operating a “blacksite” on its border with Turkey, as Turkey’s President Erdogan continues to weaponize migrants in a deliberate effort to destabilize Greece and blackmail the EU.
Congressman Gus Bilirakis, co-chair of the Hellenic Caucus and the Congressional Hellenic Israeli Alliance (CHIA) wrote a Letter to the Editor, stating, among other things,
The conscious decision to not report on Turkey organizing what the State Department has criticized as the “fundamentally destabilizing” and “unsustainable” movement of thousands of people towards the borders of the EU is inexplicable. This error is compounded by the lack of discussion of Turkey’s geopolitical motives, and that those that have been arrested are not Syrian asylum seekers but migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq, Somalia and Turkey itself.
Read the entire letter here.
