The inventors of Western civilization are now standing in the breach and defending what’s left of Western civilization. But will the European Union force Greece to stand down?
“Report: Greece Sends 50 Naval Vessels To Guard Border After Turkey Opens Gates,” by Chris Tomlinson, Breitbart, February 28, 2020:
Greece has completely shut down its borders Friday, sending dozens of naval vessels to patrol the Greek islands after Turkey announced it would allow all Syrian migrants to head to Europe.
A government representative, who wished to remain anonymous, told German media that Greece has closed its entire land and sea border with Turkey and will allow no one to cross the border at all, German tabloid Bild reports. Citing sources, the newspaper claimed 50 naval ships — likely predominantly patrol vessels — of the Hellenic Navy supported by helicopters were being sent to the European Union’s external border.
The newspaper also cited accounts of Greek authorities setting off tear gas at land border crossing points as migrants attempted to move into Europe.
The Turkish government has not made an official government announcement that the border is open but a source informed news agency Reuters that all border guards, police and Turkish coastguard officers were ordered to stand down.
Turkish journalist Ragip Solyu added that the border would be open for all Syrians wanting to head to Europe for the next 72 hours.
Ömer Celik, the spokesman for the Islamist AKP party, the party of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, alluded to the fact that the borders could be opened stating, “Our refugee policy remains the same, but here we have a situation. We can no longer keep the refugees.”
Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist who fled from the Erdogan regime to Germany, made a post on social media platform Twitter claiming to show a video of released Syrian prisoners heading for the Greek border.
Other news agencies have shown similar videos and photographs and claimed that hundreds of migrants have begun attempting to cross into Greece….
Crusades Were Right says
I saw some of the “Syrian refugees” on TV news today. Lots of black Africans there. Let’s face it, characterising these people as “Syrian refugees” is a hoax… this is an Islamic Sea about to flood Europe.
nicu says
It had never stopped since 2015 !
FYI says
Two wise men …
“Europe belongs to the Europeans”
The Dalai Lama
“It is a false exegesis to use the Word of God to promote Migration”
Cardinal Robert Sarah
{..the man who should be pope…}
And an ignorant fool..
{A man who likes to us false exegesis,using the Word of God,to promote Migration}
“Building walls means condemning yourself to death”
pope francis
{francis:the pro-NWO,pro mass islamic immigration pontiff who lives behind HIGH WALLS in the Vatican protected by his own private army and police}
There is nothing wrong with walls:they serve to protect and defend borders.
This EU Open Border policy is utterly insane:may the Greek people get their country back and stop their country from being deliberately invaded.
John Kendall says
THE WEST has been targeted for destruction a long time ago. We, THE WEST, have to mobilize as ONE to defend our WESTERN CIVILIZATION as it is also being destroyed from the inside:
-borders cannot b closed, we have to accept the third world, mass immigration, & we were never asked.
James Lincoln says
John,
Your post is accurate…
Savvy Kafir says
Agreed.
gravenimage says
So true, Crusades Were Right.
Hindu American says
Why isn’t the rest of EU helping Greece with the naval blockade to stop this “invasion”? Turkey has just declared an indirect war on Europe.
nicu says
agree – we Europeans should stay together ! But our lefty leaders betray us ! ” they will come over the sea -and it won’t be animals ” – Nostradamus — Brussels and Merkel need to be brought to court ! it is Islamic invasion part 2.0. — not to mention the night flights from Africa brought by Merkel to our country !
Alexios Comnenus says
Europe will never do anything to help Greece because they do not care about. What they care is to be islamized and to make money. They do not want to admit that hegyra is an ongoing event which will start a demographic war in the next decade. Europe intentionally refused to help Constantinople in May 1453. Some of the Christians nations even helped Ottomans to bomb the Byzantine Imperial capital. This is what the Western Europe is. Most of the Western countries closed their eyes and support muslims who do not care about the western culture.
Roland says
I fear that Alexios Comnenus is correct. I hope that some European countries will break with EU and do something to help Greece. It’s in their interest, too.
Avenger says
You are correct Alexios, without European artillery the Ottomans would never have been able to breach the land walls of Constantinople.
R Cole says
They are sold out. The finance people / called globalist tell the politicians what to do. That’s why if you vote for the right or the left you get the same agenda. Follow the money. That’s why the globalist and their media [spokespeople] hate the populists. They want puppet leaders and compliant demoralized populations.
And part of their agenda is weakening the most affluent nations on earth through mass immigration. And they are doing this at any cost, mass rapes in the UK, Sweden and Germany. Explosions and terrorist attacks, and crackdowns on basic freedom – in the name of tolerance for the hostile group. This plan is clearly not to benefit the people or the nations being flooded with these Islamic immigrants.
Our leaders have become so weak and so beholden to corporate interests, they’ve become an embarrassment. Kudos to Greece for beginning to show some fortitude, in the face of what is an assault on their sovereignty.
Westman says
“Turkey has just declared an indirect war on Europe.”
That is only true if it is Turkey’s responsibility to care for the “refugees” of Syria’s civil war, forever. Please explain why it’s Turkey’s problem and your solution, if you can find one, that relieves the citizens of Turkey from that burden. This is a world problem that is being ignored, hoping it will go away.
Where is the “glorious” UN and its solution? “Caliph man bad”, is not a solution.
Hindu American says
With all due respect, I understand your angst but your statement “if it is Turkey’s responsibility to care for the “refugees” of Syria’s civil war” is partly inaccurate.
Turkey has been part and parcel of the Syrian civil war since its inception by taking sides for its own strategic gains. The French “arrangement” with the Kemalist Turks in the late ’30s regarding the transfer of Hatay province as well as the more recent Kurdish independence problem are key to the Turkish meddling. Syrians had never accepted the Hatay transfer issue. Kurds, with all their faults, will continue this war, creating more refugees.
Secondly, please understand that if the Syrian civil war only produced genuine Syrian (Sunni) refugees (Assad is Shia/Alawite) who took refuge in Sunni Turkey, that would a straightforward matter. However, in the guise of “Syrian” refugees, a very large proportion of the economic and religious migrants are non-Syrians. If and when the war ends, will these non-Syrians go back to Syria or to their home lands? No! Where else will they go? Ask yourself these questions.
Then ask the if move by Erdogan to open the gates and let these “refugees” into Europe a largely tactical (religious) ploy or an economic measure. My bet is on the former.
Peace!
Westman says
Oh, I agree, with the exception that it isn’t just Turkey’s responsibility. Even the US had a hand in creating the real Syrian refugees in the camps.
Ray Jarman says
Westman,
My question is why does not Erdogan simply throw the Syrians back from where they came. It seems that these are the people who started the civil war and when they lose, they expect others to pay the price. If I were the Greek prime minister, I would throw them back and as far as the blacks from Africa, the Greeks should drop them back into Libya or the Sahara Desert. They have no moral or legal right to invade Europe or any other area.
Westman says
Erdogan did offer to place them in northern Syria. One doubts that he could be trusted with the money he wants(think extort) from the EU to create housing and villages there. The problem seems to have no clear solution.
black adder says
They are not even Syrians. The turkish authorities are lying. They are encouraging foreigners like Moroccans and Algerians to travel by plane to Turkey by not even demanding a visa. Then the smugglers will arrange for them to come to Greece by boat. This is a very lucrative business for the Turks. A lot of coastal turkish villages have become very wealthy because of this illegal activity.
gravenimage says
Some of them *are* Syrians, black adder–or, more specifically, the remnants of the Islamic State, straight from their final stronghold in Idlib:
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/03/syria-turkey-and-russia-when-whats-to-come-is-still-unsure-part-1
gravenimage says
Westman, Turkey is not just not refusing to take in “Syrian refugees”, which would be understandable. Instead, they are taking them through most of Turkey and aiming them at the West. This is quite deliberate.
Infidel says
Turkey can deport their Syrian refugees back to Syria, since that civil war has ended. They do need to stop trying to annex Idlib, while at the same time redirecting Syrian refugees to Europe. The Syrian refugees are more at home in Muslim Turkey than Christian Europe: if Erdogan wants to send them anywhere, it should be to Saudi Arabia and Iraq
Spiro says
Now that’s the correct question
revereridesagain says
Sounds like the Greeks are recalling their history and cultural heritage.
“Advance, ye sons of Greece, from thraldom save
Your country, save your wives, your children save,
The temples of your gods, the sacred tomb
Where rest your honour’d ancestors; this day
The common cause of all demands your valour.”
Aeschylus, “The Persians” (the battle of Salamis)
FYI says
MOLON LABE
“Come..take them..”
That’s what the Spartan king Leonidas said to Xerxes I when the Persian asked the Greeks {at Thermopylae 480 BC}to surrender their weapons,according to Plutarch.
Spartans were an impressive military force for their size:the Persians had an enormous army .While the Spartans were outnumbered they were ferocious and competent warriors.Thermopylae was a Tactical defeat but a Strategic and moral victory paving the way for the defeat of the Persian Fleet at Salmis
You can lose an individual battle{a Tactical loss} but you can still win a war{ a Strategic victory} which is what the Greeks did in those days.It also shows the importance of Strategy.
The Greeks are perfectly entitled to defend and protect THEIR homeland and repel foreign invaders.
Chistopher Watson says
Greece should be next to seek ‘Grexit’. The Euro has made them poor, the nearness to Turkey has flooded them with ‘refugees’ and they’ve had little help or support from the other Euro states.
andra says
Greek has got a lot of help and money. They do not even have so many refugees because for a Long time the borders to the North had been open until the neighbors, not Greece, closed them. The Greek Government is only grining because they want to get rid of their refugees and get as much money for that as the Turks.
Infidel says
Precisely! If the EU dares tell Athens what to do, Greece should announce that it’s leaving and then doing whatever it wants. Bulgaria should do the same thing
gravenimage says
Greece has been taking in a lot of money from the EU. Sadly I don’t see a “Grexit” in their near future.
wtd says
#Erdogan means business
He’s packing thousands of migrants from all over #Turkey on buses & trains, sending them to the Greek border
He can flood EU with migrants because as long as they come by boat, there is no way of stopping them
https://twitter.com/BasedPoland/status/1233755052776579072
Of note:
As often stated by Hugh Fitzgerald…Muhammed is deemed to be the Perfect Man (al-insan al-kamil), the perfect Model of Conduct (uswa hasana),,,,thus the muhammedan prophet set precedent for the open borders migration centuries ago, an event which is commemorated this year, “Migration to Abyssinia” on March 2, 2020
https://www.dailyevents.info/celebrations/528.html
Coincidence?
andra says
On grounds of a new decision by the European court for human rghts the Greeks and Bulgarians have all rights to send tese People back to Turkey rght away. Anyone who crosses a border illegally, with violence and in a goup has given up legal stands and needs not get asylum status and b&b, not even legal aid.
So, Greece and Bulgaria, send them back!
Hugh Fitzgerld says
NATO should send troops to guard the borders of both Greece and Bulgaria against an invasion by Muslims let loose by Erdogan.. NATO naval vessels should be helping to prevent boatloads of Muslims from landing on Greek islands, where islanders who once welcomed the refugees have completely changed their minds, and regard more such arrivals with despair. The inhabitants of Lesbos and Samos seem particularly upset by the Muslim “refugees.”
Europe has in the last decade admitted millions of Muslims into its midst. These migrants have cost tens of billions of dollars, in the benefits lavished upon them by generous welfare states: free or greatly-subsidized housing, free medical care, free education (including language lessons), unemployment benefits (even without having worked), and family allowances (and Muslim families are unusually large). In return, they have refused to — because they are unable to– integrate into advanced Western societies. How can Believers in Islam, the “best of peoples,” possibly become part of societies dominated by “the most vile of created beings”? They can’t. Muslimrates of both unemployment and criminality far outstrip those of any other immigrant group. Europe’s determination, at long last, to prevent more Muslims from entering is the minimum it must do to preserve itself; even better would be a sustained program to repatriate many of the Musllms already in Europe.
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As for Turkey, NATO should make clear it will not respond to Erdogan’s plea for help in Idlib Province;it is not Turkey that has been invaded, thus triggering Article 4 of the NATO charter, but Turkey that has been the invader, sending troops into Idlib Province, in order to crush Syrian Kurds. Assad has now announced that the Turkish troops will not pull back. Meanwhile, the Syrian army continues to move forward in its relentless march through Idlib, and eventually Turks and Syrians will clash. If the Turks look like they will drive Assad’s forces back, Russia may well enter to protect its ally, mainly through aerial bombardments, and that would mean certain defeat for Erdogan’s troops.Erdogan has gotten his country into a mess of his own making, by invading northwestern Syria. Turkish troops now will either feel compelled to retreat, so as to avoid the threat of a wider conflict with Russia, or will remain, to take on the Syrians, but if it looks like the Syrians are losing, Russia will enter to rescue its ally, and the Turks will suffer an inevitable defeat. The Turkish army, having been humiliated as a result of that blustering warrior Recep Tayyip Erdogan, could mount a coup against him. His popularity is already on the wane; last year his AK Party lost control of the three largest Turkish cities, Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, that are now governed by the Opposition. The Turkish officer corps, despite Erdogan’s purges, still has many members who resent his project of undoing the secularizing reforms of Ataturk; their defeat in Syria might be all the reason they need to attempt such a coup.
Infidel says
The US should pull out of NATO, so that the question of supporting Turkey under Article 5 doesn’t even arise. And I wouldn’t mind Turkey losing its Hatay province (historic Antioch) to Syria
gravenimage says
We should kick Turkey out of NATO.
And Greece is part of NATO, as well. We would not be beholden to back up Turkey against another NATO member.
Frank Scarn says
What surprises me is learning that Greece has 50 naval ships.
andra says
The Greek Navy is the biggest one within the EU.
Infidel says
Greece is one of the few countries that met its NATO budget obligations of 2%, despite having the economy that it does
gravenimage says
Greece actually has more than twice that number just of warships.
Infidel says
Their only real enemy is Turkey. They don’t have a border dispute w/ Bulgaria, they resolved their dispute over Macedonia’s name and I’m not sure that they have a border w/ Kosovo. The only threat to them is from Turkey, w/ whom they have a small land border in East Thrace, and a major maritime border across the Aegean Sea. So it makes sense that they’d focus more on a navy than a land army.
But they should build a air force as well. In fact, they should ally w/ Russia (Greece has more in common culturally w/ Russia than Turkey ever will) and make Russia a Caucasian threat to Turkey
gravenimage says
I agree that Turkey is Greece’s only real external enemy. They don’t have a border with Kosovo, but they do with Muslim Albania. Luckily, they are fairly quiet right now.
No Muzzies Here says
Hoping that Greece is able to protect itself. Once the “refugees” are in Greece, they can easily move into a civilized part of the world and settle in the country that provides the best benefits at no cost to them.
I’m finding it hard to remain optimistic about the future of civilization.
James Lincoln says
Without strong leaders, as currently found in the US and V4, yes, Western civilization is doomed.
Ole Pederson says
It is a shame Greece is left alone in this situation!
As someone else here once commented an article with similar pictures, it is only a question of time when there will remain two choices:
Suicide or belt-fed machine guns.
Savvy Kafir says
I think that was me waxing philosophical about belt-fed machineguns. Whenever I see these photos of huge masses of Muslim invaders demanding entry to European countries, that seems like a pretty good solution, if Western Civilization is to survive. (Fire over their heads first, to see if they can be dissuaded.)
Of course the European politicians who grant them entry should be stood in front of those guns — and no warning shots in their case.
somehistory says
A couple of days ago, a news report said that Greece had decided to build “camps” on some of their islands, such as Lesbos, to contain the “migrants.” These camps are said to be temporary, just so the government can get a handle on the problem of trying to help the “migrants” in their search for asylum…to sort them all out, etc.
Of course, many were objecting and trying to stop the bulldozers and other heavy equipment from being used, saying the camps won’t be temporary, but permanent.
It is quite understandable that Greece does not want more of these “migrants” invading and demanding asylum, when they are unable to handle what they have to deal with already. Problems of caring for so many are numerous and impossible.
GreekEmpress says
Hospitality is in Greek DNA, but there is a limit to what can be endured. The end of the rope has been reached. Please keep Greece in your prayers. I worry about relatives in Greece and Cyprus. They are victims of geography—
black adder says
Maybe we should stop praying and start doing something more effective, don’t you think so?
Εenough with all this fatalism…
GreekEmpress says
I agree black adder. Action is good also.
somehistory says
No one is forcing you to pray, ba.
For those of us with faith, it is necessary, helpful, commanded and comforting. If our Heavenly Father can’t help…and there is nothing He cannot do, except lie… certainly no imperfect and puny human creature can.
I trust Him.
gravenimage says
black adder, GreekEmpress is *anything* but fatalistic. You can pray and act at the same time–many have throughout history, including in successfully facing down Muslim aggression.
somehistory says
GE,
I pray daily for God to do His will on earth and to help all those who love Him.
I have loved ones that I worry for too; not in Greece, but in other places…the entire world is in danger from moslims rabid for islam’s beast. Our Father knows who are His people.
GreekEmpress says
Thank you gravenimage and somehistory. I know a lot of us are “prayer warriors” here at JW, and I know that just about all of us are doing our best to fight the creeping sharia anyway we can.
VitoE. says
So where are the other 56 Islamic States stepping up to the plate to help their fellow Muslim? The OIC & UN want to be relevant, why are they coordinating their fellow muslim refugees to be integrated into their fellow islamic nations. It would be a seamless transition, in customs & religious belief. Why burden the West? Why displace their fellow muslims into a non-muslim nation? Unless of course the intent & motivation are something other?
gravenimage says
Greece sends 50 naval vessels to guard border after Turkey opens gates to Muslim migrants
…………..
Good for Greece! The rest of the West should be helping them.
DazzleMe says
Absolutely GravenImage!!
Relic says
shore leave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltNm4MdykBE
Loki says
What they need are 300 Spartans.
gravenimage says
🙂
Patriotliz says
Islam will conquer the land of the infidels because “multiculturalism” is now a greater goal than nationalism. Who decided that?
gravenimage says
Patrolitz, it looks as thought the Greeks are being refreshingly un-politically correct here.
DazzleMe says
Good for them, the US should do the same!
Thomas says
Islam has weaponized The 1951 Refugee Convention and 1967 Protocol !
GG says
Finally the EU is backing Greece and realising that Erdogan is a blackmailer and an Islamist of the worst kind. Well done for small Greece dedending the christian borders of Europe from third world muslims.