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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Erdogan: Europe turning Mediterranean into cemetery
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTurkish President Recep Tayyep Erdogan is accusing European Union states of turning the Mediterranean Sea into a “migrant cemetery.”
The statement comes as outrage spreads over the drowning of refugees trying to reach Greece from Turkey, including anger following a picture of a 3-year-old boy whose body washed ashore in Turkey.
In Italy, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says that Europe cannot limit itself to reacting to evocative pictures of asylum seekers dying, but has to act.
“Europe cannot just get emotional,” Renzi says in a press conference with his Maltese counterpart Joseph Muscat.
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