🔴 US Ambassador to Turkey: "Varosia decision provocative and counterproductive"
>https://archive.is/GmN3b

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🔸 "The United States supports a comprehensive settlement led by Cyprus to reunite the island on the basis of a bi-zonal, bi-communal federation that will benefit all Cypriots as well as the wider region"

🔸 "We welcome and stand ready to assist the Secretary-General's efforts to convene an informal 5 + 1 meeting as soon as possible and to facilitate the resumption of political discussions after years of stagnation. We hope that all participants will approach the 5 + 1 meeting with an open mind, flexibility and a willingness to compromise. "The responsibility for finding a solution lies primarily with the Cypriots"

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🔴 A dinghy boat with 36 mostly African illegal immigrants arrived to Lesvos island this Wednesday (03/02)
>https://archive.is/392i8

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🔸 A total of 36 refugees and migrants, mostly Africans, were "rescued" by the Coast Guard today. As it became known, the boat in which they were riding towards the coast of Mystegnos was put out of operation, as a result of which the passengers were in danger

🔸 All of them were collected by a boat of the Coast Guard that transported them to the port of Mytilene, while then they were promoted to the quarantine structure of Kara Tepe

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🟢 It is a well known tactic of immigrants and their smugglers where they will deliberately damage their boats to force the coast guards to "rescue" them, the methods range from damaging the engines, drilling holes on the hull, puncturing the side of the boat (dinghy). After that, the immigrants call the emergency services or have NGOs who already know of their location to call the authorities

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🔴 Greek PM: "I am not naive with Turkey [...] The threat of sanctions against Turkey must be credible, otherwise it will not work. "The European Union must be strengthened geopolitically"
>https://archive.is/C8Ydd

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🔸"The European Council has generally moved in the right direction for Turkey, but I do not hide from you that sometimes I would like more support" said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis speaking at the "Europe 2021" online conference.

🔸 The Prime Minister stressed that "Greece seeks to resolve its only dispute with Turkey, namely the definition of maritime zones between them." "I am not naive, but I want to see consistency on the part of Turkey"

🔸 "The threat of sanctions against Turkey must be credible, otherwise it will not work. "The European Union must be strengthened geopolitically"

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🔴 500 more illegal immigrants from Africa arrived in Lampedusa, Italy this week. Meanwhile borders are closed, flight companies refuse to go to certain countries and Europeans cant leave their homes without being fined or arrested. But the EU is gladly taking in more illegals
>https://archive.is/qJKpq

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🔴 Turkish spy planes violate Greek airspace 31 times during Skyros 2021 exercise
>https://archive.is/EbDdU

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🔸 The Turkish Air Force violated Greek airspace at a time when four French Rafale fighters were participating in the “Skyros 2021” exercises in the Aegean Sea

🔸 Four Turkish CN-235 spy planes flew over the Aegean and committed 31 violations against Greek airspace and broke air traffic rules four times in the Athens Flight Information Region

🔸 Four Rafale fighter jets of the French Air Force have been at the Tanagra Airbase since yesterday, participating in the “Skyros 2021” exercise with Greece

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🔴 Gothenburg, Sweden :
masked African walks into a polyclinic, disinfects hands, detonates an explosive device and walks out.

🔸 Two people were injured, one of them seriously

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🔴 Human smuggling gangs have been posting videos of them making documents that look exactly the same as EU documents online to attract more "clients", NGO members have also been previously arrested with such fake documents as they were handing them out to immigrants
>https://archive.is/eAEp4

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🔴 ‘Child’ immigrant at Swedish Border Was Actually 60-Year-Old Woman
>https://archive.is/3bJ1s

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🔸 A 60-year-old woman claimed she was a child in an attempt to enter Sweden to visit her mother after the country introduced strict border controls

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🔴 US keeps Turkey on ice: No plans to set up joint working group on S-400
>https://archive.is/Q7QxW

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🔸 The US envoy to Turkey, David Michael Sutherfield, has revealed that the United States has no plans to set up a working group with Ankara to resolve the two countries' differences over the acquisition of S-400 air defense systems by Turkey

🔸 "It simply came to our notice then. "We hope that the S-400 issue can be resolved and if that is not possible, we will continue to focus on areas of our cooperation that are not directly affected by sanctions"

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🔴 NATO: "We created a "platform" for resolving Greece-Turkey disputes"
>https://archive.is/O2wwy

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🔸 The platform will address disputes aimed at reducing the risk of a possible maritime or air accident in the Eastern Mediterranean

🔸 "Greece and Turkey are valuable allies but on some issues, including the Eastern Mediterranean, they can not agree," Stoltenberg said, noting that there may be "different views among NATO allies"

🔸 "Yes, there are concerns, but in my opinion the most important thing that NATO can do is not to raise concerns, but to find a way to a positive approach and resolution" he said

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🔴 Ring of smugglers in Kos has been dismantled, the smugglers used a hotel as a safehouse for the illegal immigrants getting into Greece and then gave them fake documents so they could move to mainland Greece
>https://archive.is/yu1ll

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🔸 The arrest of an illegal immigrant with a fake house lease contract that allowed him to travel to mainland Greece, last Tuesday in the port of Kos, led the men of the Security of the Port Authority to dismantle a branch of an organization based in Turkey that smuggles illegal immigrants

🔸 a hotel in Kos was used as a "safe house" for the accommodation of illegal immigrants who had come illegally from Turkey without legal documents and they were supplied with fake documents to move to mainland Greece.

🔸 The 73-year-old owner of the hotel was arrested

🔸 In the rooms, four illegal immigrants were arrested who had on them fake European IDs and house rent documents , which had been provided to them by one of them

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🔴 Video from Lampedusa, some streets have become dangerous due to the increased presence of illegal immigrants

🟢 While most Europeans run away or try to ignore the Africans ruining their city, Italy seems to be one of the countries where people consistently respond in kind to the abuses of the invaders

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