Thousands of Greeks protested on Thursday evening in the streets of Athens and other cities against the rising xenophobia and hatred after Turkey opened its border gates to thousands of migrants.
They held banners reading “Solidarity with Refugees” and “Open Borders.”
Πορεία αλληλεγγύης στους πρόσφυγες pic.twitter.com/nCmMGrKvz0
— EFSYN (@EFSYNTAKTON) March 5, 2020
#Atinada binlerce kişi #mültecilerle dayanişmak için sokakta.
Yürüyüşte ırkçılık lanetlenirken, "Birlikte yaşayabiliriz. Sömürü, savaş, milliyetçilik ve ırkçılığa karşı birlikte savaşabiliriz" deniliyor.
Video: News24/7#Refugees pic.twitter.com/KIp1OZ1HZ8— Çağdaş Kaplan (@KaplanCagdas1) March 5, 2020
Police had blocked the main avenue leader to the Prime Minister’s office.
Ο κεφαλή πάει προς τον κλασσικό φραγμό στα λουλουδάδικα, το πλήθος εκτιμάται σε περίπου 7-8κ καθώς η ουρά της πορείας ακόμα έρχεται από τη στροφή της οδού Συντάγματος. pic.twitter.com/MEHB1zeLf1
— ypopto_mousi (@ypopto_mousi) March 5, 2020
Estimated 7,000 joined the protests in Athens that was and ended peacefully.
The public opinion is most probably overwhelmingly against migrants, nationalism and xenophobia are on the rise, many mainstream media challenge the few progressive voices criticizing the government policy on refugees and asylum seekers before Turkey opened the borders.
#Atinada binlerce kişi #mültecilerle dayanişmak için sokakta.
Yürüyüşte ırkçılık lanetlenirken, "Birlikte yaşayabiliriz. Sömürü, savaş, milliyetçilik ve ırkçılığa karşı birlikte savaşabiliriz" deniliyor.
Video: News24/7#Refugees pic.twitter.com/KIp1OZ1HZ8— Çağdaş Kaplan (@KaplanCagdas1) March 5, 2020
At the same time, Greece has been suffering way too long form the EU policy that has trapped 60,000 refugees and asylum seekers on the islands and dozens of camps in the mainland.
The Greek whinging about 60,000 refugees has to be seen in the context of well over 4 million in Turkey, and another 3 million in Lebanon and Jordan — small countries. The problem is with the European Union, and closing the Greek borders is not only illegal but may well signal the end of refugee rights in the world. It is not possible to continue with laws about human rights when governments refuse to obey them.
Do Greeks want to go down in history as the people who destroyed refugee rights? After 1922?
They are mostly economic migrants and many are jihadis very few are true refugees and should seek asylum in a Muslim country Erdogan is using them as weapons against Greece
And Greeks were refugees because they were a minority in a land they lived in thousands of years
Why should we become a minority in Greece to satisfy your liberal heart