🔴 Authorities of the Western Port of Crete might close the port
>https://archive.is/hdyVK
🔸 Due to the increase volume of work in the port from newly arrivals and also patrolling the maritime areas near crete to look for and "rescue" illegal immigrants, the already understaffed port of Western Crete warned the local and national authorities that they might have to close the port
‼️ Many of the immigrants are being temporarily housed at these ports while they are not transferred to mainland Greece and in some cases the ports themselves lack space and transfer the illegals to yet another port since local immigration camps are also full.
🔸The port staff in Sfakia, Paleochora who also serve Gavdos, Elafonisi and in general the southern coast of Chania have reached their limits due to understaffing
🔸 5 months ago, the government promised to solve the issue but to this day nothing was done
🔸 The region of Chania has been receiving the majority of illegal immigrants in 2024
@GreekBordersGeneral
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‼️⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️‼️
🔴 Increase of 148% of immigrants entering Greece in the first quarter of 2024
>archive.is/TtT1N
>data.unhcr.org/en/situations/mediterranean/location/5179
🔸 Greece registered 16.800 New asylum applications up to March of 2024, while Italy, the main corridor for illegal immigrants, registered 17.996
‼️ In the first quarter of 2024, 14.814 illegal immigrants entered Greece, 13.024 of those through sea (Data up to 12 May 2024)
⚠️ Representing a 148% increase compared to 2023 which was already the highest since 2016 (🖇 source here AND here)
🏛🚪 Evros - 1.790
🏝 Lesvos - 4.164
🏝 Samos - 2.174
🏝 Kos - 1.594
🏝 Chios - 1.543
🏝 Crete - 1.435
🏝 Rhodes - 514
🏝 Other Islands - 1.599
👨🦰 Men represent 57,8% of arrivals
👩 Women represent 17,6% of arrivals
👦 'Minors' represent 24,6% of arrivals
‼️ It is extremely important to note that these are official numbers and there is possibly a large margin of immigrants who entered and left Greece without being noticed
@GreekBordersGeneral
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 Islamist threats sent to schools in Cyprus
>https://archive.is/ZbLoF
👉 Part 1/2
We've always waited for the day when we can go down to the city and not hide our faces.
The day will come when our images in our heads will become the destructive force of reality that you will feel on these walls
The blood of teachers will be spilled in schools. We will cut their throats
The enemies of Allah will lie about our deeds
Sharia does not divide non-believers into warlike and peaceful
I said: Messenger of Allah our horses trampled the women and children of the pagans. He said: "they are of their fathers."
Children and women will be killed only if they come in our way
We will destroy you in the streets. Our trucks are full of explosives
They will destroy you in the main squares like in Nice and will cut the crowds with knives. They will break into you and explode. We will drown you in blood
🔴 Hazbollah leader wants to flood Europe with immigrants
>https://archive.is/DHzvw
🔸 Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, during a live TV broadcast, called for a "National decision" in Lebanon to allow immigrants to leave for Europe
‼️ More specifically, he called for the "sea to be open to anyone who wants anyone who wants to leave for Europe, for Cyprus" and clarified that he does not want immigrants forced into boats and sent to Europe
⚠️ Cyprus was most likely mentioned due to being the easiest and closest destination to those who leave Lebanon to reach Europe
@GreekBordersGeneral
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 EU adopts the new 'Migration Pact" (14/05/24)
>https://archive.is/IryF3
👉 Part 1/2
🔍 It consists of 10 reforms, some of the most notable are:
1️⃣👉 New mandatory Asylum procedures at 'external borders' will not allow immigrants to enter EU territory while at the same time focusing on making "a quick assessment" at the external border regarding the validity of applications
2️⃣👉 Change in responsibilities, forcing countries of arrival or which house relatives of applicants to be responsible for the application and applicant
‼️ 1️⃣ and 2️⃣ aim to prevent 'refugees' from moving on their own from border countries to other countries such as Germany both before and after the application review
3️⃣👉 "Mandatory solidarity": a new 'migrant relocation quota system' stipulated by the EU will force countries to accept immigrants OR pay EUR 20.000 per rejection
⚠️‼️👉 Previous post series on the New EU Migration Pact (full breakdown)
👉 Part 2/2
@GreekBordersGeneral
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Armenians around the world today remember the 1.5 million victims of the Turkish atrocities that began in 1894 and continued until 1917
Today marks the 109th anniversary of the 1915 Genocide of Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians. On the night of April 24, 1915, the Ottoman government announced the arrest of the first wave of 235 of the most prominent Armenian intellectuals in Constantinople.
The Turkish Ottoman government killed Armenians through shootings, starvation, death marches, and torture of all kinds. The most common type of killing was death marches, where Armenians were sent to starve to death in the Syrian desert.
Children and women were often attempted to be forcibly Islamized, leading to mass suicides. Young women and girls were often used as domestic servants or sex slaves. Some boys were kidnapped to work as forced laborers for Muslims.
Those who were able to walk more than a thousand kilometers across the desert and survived were granted asylum in French Mandate Syria.
The genocide led to the formation of an Armenian diaspora, and survivors mostly chose France, Argentina and the United States as a refuge.
After the massacres and deportations, some Armenians tried to use bribes to find Armenian orphans as part of the "one child, one bar of gold" campaign. Through the local population, Armenians bribed people who sang Armenian lullabies and thus triggered the memories of the children in order to identify them.
In 1920, a revenge operation called "Nemesis" was launched.
Between 1920 and 1922, the underground cell of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation committed seven assassinations, the most famous of which was the assassination of Talaat Pasha, the main organizer of the Armenian genocide, carried out by Armenian Soghomon Telirian in March 1921 in Berlin.
On August 22, 1939, in preparation for the impending invasion of Poland, Hitler stated:
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Israel still has not recognized the Armenian Genocide.
In 2015, the Armenian Church canonized all 1.5 million martyrs of the Turkish atrocities.
In 2016, Armenian philanthropists Noubar Afeyan, Vartan Gregorian, and Ruben Vardanyan (abducted, currently being held in an Azeri-Turkish prison in Baku) established the Aurora Prize, which is awarded annually on behalf of Armenian Genocide survivors. The winner of the Aurora Award receives a $1,000,000 dollar prize for awakening humanity. The award recipients are distinguished individuals fighting for human rights around the world and the prize goes to their chosen charitable organizations.
The genocide is fully recognized by 34 countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the United States, Russia, as well as by the European Parliament and the Catholic Church. Dozens of countries around the world have partially recognized the genocide. The first country to recognize the genocide was Uruguay in 1965.
Together with the Armenians, 900,000 Greeks and 750,000 Assyrians were killed.
The Armenian genocide is stubbornly denied by Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan, which 109 years later, in 2023, ethnically cleansed Armenian-populated Artsakh through a 10-month blockade, famine and numerous wars.
Since 2021, the Istanbul Governorate has banned public events commemorating the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide.
📷 Armenian Genocide Museum archive
@REPUBLICPRESS
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🔴 Greece plans to acquire Air Defense System similar to Israel's Iron Dome
>https://archive.is/ghUe1
🔸 The Minister of National Defense, Nikos Dendias, announced that Greece will acquire Anti-Missile and Anti-Drone systems similar to Israel's Iron Dome, citing that after observing Israel's system responding to Iran's attack and the war in Ukraine, the need for such systems became obvious
🔸 He noted that Turkey increased its drone production and development and that initially Greece did not think it was necessary to fill that gap in the Armed Forces System
🔸 Dendias said that the system wont be purchased right now but that the Greek Government has already calculated the possible expenditure for doing so in the future
⚠️ It is also worth noting that Greece has started developing military drones domestically in recent years and the program has already produced some results but is still not enough to produce fully operational armed drones in larger scales
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 Muslims practiced their prayers in Cypriot cities to celebrate the end of Ramadan
🔸 According with the original post on X, this happened in Limassol, Nicosia, Paphos and Larnaka
👉🏻 Original post from X
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 Turkey to suspend implementation of Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe
>https://archive.is/ShaA4
🔸 Turkey announced that it will suspend the implementation of the CFE Treaty. It means that Turkey will abolish the ceilings of forces and armaments imposed by the treaties as well as the mutual checks to ensure that countries were complying with the ceilings and the guidelines for destruction and withdraw of war materials
‼️ This comes a while after Russia withdrew from the treaty which caused NATO to declare its 'freezing' as the relevance of the treaty without Russia is reduced significantly
‼️ It is still not known if Greece will follow suit and also suspend or withdraw from the treaty since there has been an increasing arms race between Greece and Turkey for the past few years
🔸 The treaty itself only aims at avoiding accumulation of military forces and armaments as well as to create checks and balances between Western countries and those from the Warsaw Pact
@GreekBordersGeneral
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 Over 400 illegal immigrants arrived to Cyprus on Monday
>https://archive.is/Vc1g0
🔸 The 458 illegal immigrants arrived to Cyprus in 6 boats that departed from Lebanon
‼️ 244 are adult men, 44 women and 170 are "minors" (the distribution between the six boats is oddly balanced)
💵 The immigrants paid € 3.000 each for the two smugglers, namely a 31 year old Lebanese man and a 23 year old Syrian
‼️ All of the immigrants on these boats claim to be from Syria, a common way to guarantee Asylum
🧮 Quantities by Boat:
⛵️1️⃣ — 30 total - 18 men, 3 women, 7 'children', 2 "minors"
⛵️2️⃣ — 24 total - 14 men, 3 women, 5 'children', 2 "minors"
⛵️3️⃣ — 62 total - 36 men, 6 women, 11 'children', 9 "minors"
⛵️4️⃣ — 37 total - 14 men, 4 women, 18 'children', 1 "minor"
⛵️5️⃣ — 22 total - 14 men, 1 woman, 3 'children', 4 "minors"
⛵️6️⃣ — 283 total - 162 men, 27 women, 79 'children', 15 "minors"
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 Almost 5.000 applications for new residency permit in Greece
>https://archive.is/11LGt
🔸 In 2023, Greece approved the law 5078/2023, which in its article 193 allows that illegal immigrants that had been living in Greece for at least three years prior to the creation of the law can get a Residence Permit as long as they have a Job Offer and clean criminal history
🔸 According with the reports, until last week over 800 of the 4790 applications had been approved and the rest were still under evaluation
‼️ The law got into effect in February 2024, therefore in a little over a month there were already 5000 applications
👉 The law itself and even Art. 193 is too extensive to be fully explained in this post since this article alone has 13 paragraphs, the full text of the law can be read here (in Greek)
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 2023 broke a 7 year record of Asylum Applications
>https://archive.is/dOkbk
🔸 According with the EUAA (European Union Agency for Asylum), 2023 broke a 7 year record with over 1.14 million, the most Asylum Applications since 2016 which was considered to be the height of the immigration crisis with 1.3 million between 2015 and 2016
🔸 Most applicants declared to be Afghans and Syrians. It was a 18% increase from 2022
‼️ Countries with the most applications:
🇩🇪 Germany received the most applications - 334,000
🇫🇷 France - 167,000
🇪🇸 Spain - 162,000
🇮🇹 Italy - 136,000
‼️ Countries with the most applications proportionally
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇦🇹 Austria
🇬🇷 Greece
‼️ Cyprus received the most applications proportionally, 12000, representing 1 for every 78 inhabitants, Germany in comparison, received 1 for every 252 inhabitants. The EU average is 1 for every 400
👉 Previous post: 2022 had the most applications since 2016
👉 Next post on this subject
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🔴 Gavdos, the Greek Lampedusa?
>https://archive.is/EDkD2
🔸 Gerd Heller from Deutsche Welle, points out that recent numbers show that the Greek island of Gavdos, south of Crete, has become popular among immigrant smugglers. The island is under the administration of Chania, a region of the island of Crete.
🔸 The number of illegal immigrants aiming for Crete has increased in the first weeks of 2024, out of those illegal immigrants, most of them arrived in Gavdos and were then transferred to Crete.
‼️ 612 illegal immigrants arrived in Gavdos within the first 7 weeks of the year
‼️ The island has a total native population of 120 residents
🔸 Crete/Gavdos is not only targeted by north african smugglers but it is also a place where smugglers from Turkey choose to go in case their journey from the Turkish coast towards Italy does not go as planned or simply as a way to save resources while delivering the immigrants to Europe
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 After a fight at an immigrant camp in Serres, immigrants threw rocks at the ambulance
>https://archive.is/wrOKL
🔸 Recently riots and fights have become very common in immigrant camps in Greece, this week started with yet another fight, two immigrants were injured
‼️ As soon as the ambulance arrived, it was attacked with rocks, damaging the vehicle and causing injury to the driver who was later also examined
/GBG/
🟢 It's impressive how society tolerates the existence of these camps in Greece, from destruction of olive groves, destruction of virgin forests to build more camps, crime increase and endless violence both inside and outside the camps. All of it paid by honest citizens, allowing their taxpayer money to be wasted with people who hate Greece, Greeks and contribute nothing to this great country
@GreekBordersGeneral
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‼️⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️‼️
🔴 How Cyprus is curbing illegal immigration
>https://archive.is/RImMa
>https://archive.is/qTTyu
>https://archive.is/xT86Q
🔸 After a recent surge of illegal immigration, the Island Nation decided to take action against it
‼️ Since last week Cyprus has been patrolling its maritime borders with Lebanon which is the main entry point lately, preventing boats with illegal immigrants to enter Cyprus' maritime zones and forcing them to go back to Lebanon, making illegal immigration drop significantly (lets see for how long)
⚠️ Cypriot operations started on 16/05, no asylum applications were filed that day and 5 boats with illegal immigrants were sent back to Lebanon, they carried around 400 illegals in total
🔸 Lebanese authorities are also cooperating and have been intercepting boats going to Lebanon to transport immigrants to Cyprus
‼️ The video shows one of the boats that went back to Lebanon, this news is making rounds in Middle Eastern News Outlets
@GreekBordersGeneral
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 Islamist threats sent to schools in Cyprus
>https://archive.is/ZbLoF
>https://archive.is/ywyhN
👉 Part 2/2
👉 Read the previous post as reference here
🔸 The text was reportedly emailed to every public school that had their emails listed in the Cypriot Ministry of Education
🔸 After investigating and inquiring INTERPOL, it seems as if the stream of emails would have originated in Russia and the same text was also sent to other European countries earlier this month. INTERPOL claims it to be the work of an 'anti-authoritarian' group in Russia
/GBG/
💭 The emails 'originating in Russia' doesn't mean much on itself since whoever sent these emails did so to hide their identity and could very well be using services in Russia to do just that and INTERPOL's theory of it being an "anti-authoritarian group" is just as valid as assumptions of terrorist groups existing within Cyprus. It makes no sense for such Russian anti-authoritarian group to target Cyprus
🔴 Illegal immigrants heading towards Crete once again call for rescue
>https://archive.is/ABf25
🔸 Yesterday morning (15/05/24) 36 illegal immigrants, 32 Bangladeshi and 4 Egyptians, were detected approaching crete, they were detained and taken to Elafonisi where they would be most likely transported to Souda
‼️ Later that same day, 21 illegal immigrants called emergency services because they ran out of fuel, the boat left from Tobruk, Libya, towards Crete. (Image above posted by the immigrants related to this incident)
/GBG/
💭 European policy of rescuing illegal immigrants and basically giving them a ferry ride to European territory is something that needs to change, it only encourages immigration and uses taxpayer's money to assist people who were already attempting to illegally enter Europe, urgent reform to asylum process is needed as well as 'rescue' procedures
🔴 EU adopts new 'Migration Pact" - Context and References
👉 Part 2/2
⚠️ New quotas will be mandatory and stipulated by the EU
‼️ The 3 measures cited in the previous posts had been attempted as individual programs by EU countries before, most notably, in 2021 Germany proposed paying for the expenses of illegal immigrants in Greece in order to give them goo enough living conditions so they would not move to Germany and also requested to send back 'refugees' granted Asylum in Greece but that moved to Germany after, Germany also sent its Federal Police to Greek airports to prevent immigrants from boarding flights to Germany illegally (🖇 sources here & here)
⚠️ Mandatory solidarity will allow EU countries who refuse to meet the quota to provide personnel to assist with Asylum Applications, provide border patrol personnel (FRONTEX), set up camps and other forms of assistance including financial
⚠️‼️👉 Previous post series on the New EU Migration Pact (full breakdown)
👉 Part 1/2
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 Two shocking rape cases perpetrated by immigrants in Greece in a span of 3 days
>https://archive.is/GVioc
>https://archive.is/Bpggn
>https://archive.is/ZHcAG
‼️ On 09/05, a 16 year old British girl was raped by a Pakistani immigrant in Crete. According with repports, the victim was followed by the immigrant to the restroom of a bar she was at with her family. The Pakistani immobilized the girl and raped her, fleeing shortly after, CCTV footage assisted in his capture
👮🏻♂️ The authorities located the man a few hours later, the paki claimed the act with the minor was consensual. The investigation is still ongoing and he is under police custody
‼️ on 12/05, a 62 year old woman was raped by an immigrant in Achaia. The woman was performing agricultural work on a field and was raped by the man of foreign origin. The authorities have not released information regarding the country of origin of the man yet
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🚶♂️📖🕯 We all know that the right wing needs to organize and strengthen itself, but the question is not only how but also the ways to overcome the current limitations regarding the system that was made to prevent us from doing so.
https://telegra.ph/Right-Wing-reform-and-the-necessity-for-semi-open-communities-04-20
👤 From the /GBG/ team to /CIG/ Telegram
⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 'Migrant and Refugee Council of the Municipality of Piraeus' (SEMP) held a meeting to speed up 'integration'
>https://archive.is/U4p0B
🔸 The first meeting of the "Migrant and Refugee Council of the Municipality of Piraeus" was held earlier this month, it counted with the presence of government representatives as well as UN commissioners, NGOs and associations of immigrants
🔸 The "council" decided to discuss the following topics during their next:
‼️1 - Social inclusion, culture, sports, learning the Greek language, education, health and the labor market
‼️2 - Faster renewal of residence permits, as well as implementation of alternative forms of detention
‼️3 - The organization of events and voluntary initiatives in cooperation with local agencies for better adaptation and integration of immigrants in the 'Greek reality'
‼️⚠️ Full names of those present in the meeting and their organizations can be found in the original article archive link above
@GreekBordersGeneral
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 Cyprus to suspend the reviewing of Asylum Applications for Syrians and reject others automatically
>https://archive.is/mK8rA
🔸 According with the Cypriot Minister of Interior, ALL Asylum Applications from people who claim to have Syrian origin will be suspended, it was also decided to immediately revoke the Asylum status or reject applications from people who have traveled to Syria in the past 12 months
🔸 Many immigrants travel back to Syria after acquiring Asylum in Europe, in Cyprus' case, they fly to Syria by going to the illegally occupied region of Cyprus
🔸 The reason being that the reassessment of Syria's status as a safe country as well as the definition of safe areas within Syria is being evaluated
‼️The move opens a precedent for other European countries to re-evaluate the applications as well as who has the right to even request Asylum
‼️ This alone is not enough
@GreekBordersGeneral
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‼️⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️‼️
🔴 New wave of immigration threatens Cyprus
>https://archive.is/3ssxI
🔸 Between January 1st and April 4th, around 3.530 illegal immigrants reached Cyprus. Most of them claim to be Syrians (over 2000 immigrants), while others are mostly from African countries
🔸 In the first quarter of 2023, the total of arrivals to Cyprus by sea was of 78, while in 2024 it reached 2.004 illegal immigrants. In the first quarter of 2023 around 2.656 immigrants entered Cyprus through the neutral zone while in 2024 the number decreased to 1.012
‼️ Over 25.000 Asylum applications were already pending review in Cyprus
🔺 'Syrians' - 13.798
🔺 Congo - 3.260
🔺 Cameroon - 1.452
🔺 Afghanistan - 1.358
🔺 Nigeria - 1.039
🔺 Somalia - 933
🔺 Iran - 468
🔺 Sierra Leone - 423
🔺 Liberia - 406
🔺 Iraq - 395
🔺 other countries - 2,189
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 New 7.4 Billion EU immigration deal and Greek Ministry of Immigration still lying about reduced immigration
>https://archive.is/VP0tH
>https://archive.is/i3smZ
‼️ The EU has signed a € 7.4 Billion Euros immigration deal with Egypt. € 5 Billions in Soft Loans, € 1.8 Billion as investments for the private sector, € 600 Million in grants and € 200 Million for immigration management
🔸 The deal is significant since many smugglers and the immigrants themselves either go through Egypt to reach Libya and other North African countries to depart towards Europe or go to Europe directly from Egypt. Egypt also is a far more honorable ally than Turkey
🔸 Meanwhile the Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum, Dimitris Keiridis claims illegal immigration dropped 70% in the upper Aegean and 90% in Evros claiming Egypt has played a major role, insane claims given how both 2023 and 2024 have registered the highest number of immigrants since 2016
👉 Previous post on record high immigration levels
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 Island of Gavdos declares emergency with increased flow of immigrants
>https://archive.is/S7HfC
🔸 Gavdos is a Greek island south of Crete, with a total of 120 native residents
🔸 The mayor of Gavdos declared an emergency this week after once again the flow of immigrants to the island increased
‼️ Between Monday night and early Tuesday, the island experienced the arrival of 91 illegal immigrants, 64 of them being adult men while 23 claim to be minors, most of them claim to be Egyptian and some are from Bangladesh
‼️ Arrivals of illegal immigrants have become a daily occurrence in the island since last saturday and the island has probably received well over 1000 illegal immigrants this year alone
👉 Previous post on Gavdos situation
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 2023 immigration by countries of origin
🔸 Across Europe, Syrians* made 181 000 Asylum applications, Afghans** followed with 114 000 applications (11% less than in 2022) and Turks have filed 101 000 applications (81% more than 2022, mostly in Germany)
‼️ The approval rate in 2023 was the highest since 2016, with around 46% of applications being accepted (applicants can appeal and resubmit again while still in Europe, a process that generally takes over two years)
⚠️‼️* 80% of applications from so called Syrians are approved, which is why many immigrants claim to be Syrian in order to receive asylum, although they have a few more obstacles to receive citizenship and permanent residency, interviews from as back as 2016 showed Pakistanis and even sub-saharan africans claiming to be Syrians
⚠️‼️ ** 61% of applications from so called Afghans are approved and they receive refugee status due to supposed persecution by the Taliban
👉 Previous post on this subject
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 EUROPOL took down a ring of smugglers operating from Germany, Belgium and France
>https://archive.is/DAFDl
🔸 The operation was named Task Force Wave, and had around 600 police officers in total working on it
🔸 The gang smuggled immigrants from continental Europe to the UK
‼️ 28 locations in Germany were raided and 12 boats
🔺179 life jackets and dozens of children's jackets seized
🔺 11 outboard motors
🔺 10 engines
🔺 almost 60 electronic devices
⚠️ Firearms were also seized
‼️ The leader of the Iraqi-Kurdish Gang along with five other high rank individuals have been arrested
🔸 A total of 19 people were arrested
🔸 The gang bought cheap inflatable boats from China and imported them to Germany in a complex operation, they transported the boats by car to Belgium where they would transport immigrants
‼️ The gang charged between €1000 and €3000 per person
🟢 /GBG/ - It's almost as if they want to show some work before the elections
@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 Turkey reschedules conversion of Chora Church into a mosque
>https://archive.is/hZst1
🔸 The official conversion of Chora was scheduled for the 23rd of February, when the first muslim prayer would be conducted, but the Turkish state recently denied it
🔸 The new announcement says the 'restoration' is in its final stages and that the Church will be dedicated for Islamic worship by May of 2024
‼️ The church of Agios Sotiros in Chora, the catholicon of what was once a monastic complex, dates from the 6th AD. The most elaborate mosaics and frescoes were created from 1305 to 1320
‼️ It is the monument with the most elaborate Byzantine mosaics in Constantinople, along with Hagia Sofia and the Monastery of Pammakaristos
🇹🇷 It was converted into a mosque in 1511 and later in 1945 into a museum, with Erdogan announcing in 2019 that it would become a mosque
(w/ images)
👉 Chora's Byzantine tombs HERE
👉 Chora's conversion process HERE
👉 Erdogan Islamic prayer plan in Chora HERE
@GreekBordersGeneral
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 What are Greek Farmers demanding
>https://archive.is/yruO0
🔺 Reduction of production costs with measures such as:
👉 Establishment of rural tax-free oil
👉 Ceiling of 7 cents/Kwh in the agro-livestock stream
👉 Subsidy of means, supplies and animal feed and abolition of VAT
👉 The New CAP should not be implemented and renegotiated
👉 Replenishment of lost income in crops that have a production loss that is not covered by ELGA as well as plant and animal products that were sold below production costs. Compensation from ELGA for all damages and diseases at 100% of the actual damage and not the insured value
👉 Measures to be taken and controls to be carried out by the Government to stop the "Hellenization" of plant, animal & beekeeping products
👉 Prices that cover production costs so that we have income for our livelihood and cultivation needs
👉 Infrastructure projects for the anti-flood shielding of the Country.
‼️ Other demands about floods HERE
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