<div dir="ltr"><b><a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8648/migrant-issue-turkey">https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/8648/migrant-issue-turkey</a></b><br><br>".............<br>Greek president Prokopis Pavlopoulos recently <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/greek-leader-claims-turkish-border-guards-support-people-152936557.html" target="_blank">expressed</a>
his concern by saying, "I have a strong fear that Turkey's smugglers
have the support of the authorities, who act like they have seen
nothing. ... There are even cases where the smugglers are helped. We
have evidence."<br>...........<br>...........<br><p>Greece is at the receiving end of the migrants across the sea. If
Turkey does not control the migrant flow, there is little that Greece
can do once the refugees have arrived in its borders. In an <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/205202/article/ekathimerini/news/mouzalas-slams-turkish-failure-to-curb-migrant-flow-as-eu-calls-for-completion-of-hotspots">interview with Deutsche Welle</a>,
Greek Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas said, "Smuggling
networks are still in full operation... The deportation of migrants who
have traveled from Turkey is also a big problem."</p>
<p>Although purportedly <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey">Turkey is a secular state</a>,
99.8% of its people are officially registered as Muslim, mostly Sunni.
Terrorist groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS), Al Nusra and Al-Qaeda
come from the same sect of Islam. Some people believe that many Turkish
officials sympathize with Sunni terrorist groups such as ISIS and that
perhaps this partiality has an effect on their handling of the refugee
crisis.</p>
In 2014, amateur <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2811338/Oh-lovely-war-Remarkable-video-shows-ISIS-fighter-strolling-right-Turkish-border-checkpoint-relaxing-chat-guards.html">video</a>
footage appeared revealing Islamic State terrorists chatting with a
group of Turkish border guards near the besieged Syrian city of Kobane. A
report says, "The amateur footage, understood to have been filmed close
to Zarova Hill in the outskirts of Kobane, raises serious questions
about the apparently relaxed relationship between the terror group and
officials from the Nato member state." <br>.........<br></div>