Bulgaria to send troops to Turkey border to deal with floods of migrants

[Böri]

Bulgaria plans to station 600 troops on its border with Turkey to quell any potential flow of migrants. Bulgaria's defense minister said the EU's failure to stop migrants crossing the Mediterranean justified the move.

Bulgarian Defense Minister Krassimir Karakatschanow said Thursday he plans to deploy armed troops to "strengthen our border security" with Turkey and halt any potential flow of migrants.
Speaking to German daily Die Welt, Karakatschanow said he plans to divide his country's border region with Turkey into five zones and have armed troops patrol each one. He said he expects the maximum manpower at the border to be around 600 troops, backed up by video surveillance and even drones.

"We will send armed forces to each of these zones, who will be tasked with guarding the appropriate border region," Karakatschanow said. "Highly specialized combat troops will also be part of the forces."

The defense minister justified the move to the German newspaper, saying that he had identified how much more efficient the military was at guarding a border region than the police force.
Karakatschanow also said the move was necessary following the European Union's failure to stem the flow migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Italy. "We cannot afford to continue having illegal migrants coming to Europe in droves," he said. "We should deploy NATO and EU troops in places like Italy and Greece, while defending the external borders of the EU, with armed force if necessary."
The Bulgarian lawmaker also said he believed the majority of people crossing the Mediterranean from Libya into Europe were economic migrants coming for personal gain, rather than to escape persecution. "They don't fear for their lives, they only want to live in a rich western country," he said.
Located along the Balkan route, Bulgaria saw hundreds of thousands of migrants pass through into western Europe during the height of the migrant crisis. Since then, Bulgaria's border with Turkey has been sealed with barbed-wire fencing, reducing though not quite fully stopping new migrant arrivals crossing into Europe.

Migrant rights group denounces Bulgaria's military border guards

Günter Burkhardt, the chairman of the Germany-based migrant rights organization Pro Asyl denounced the Bulgarian proposal as a violation both human rights and international law.
However, he said that this was part of a wider trend of violations on behalf of EU countries. "Italy's decision to send military vessels to Libya is just as indefensible as Italy, Germany, and other EU states' cooperation with the Libyan government.," Burkhardt said. "The normalization of these rights abuses is slowly becoming accepted within the European conscience.

http://www.dw.com/en/migration-bulga...der/a-40134874

Hell in the past Turkey's border with Syria, Iran and Iraq were somewhat the border of the 1st (or close to it) world with the 3rd World. Now it's Bulgaria's border with Turkey which separates the 3rd World with the more prosperous world

[Turul Karom]

Hell in the past Turkey's border with Syria, Iran and Iraq were somewhat the border of the 1st (or close to it) world with the 3rd World. Now it's Bulgaria's border with Turkey which separates the 3rd World with the more prosperous world

Ethnic Anatolian Turks are going to be facing a challenging future as the demographics of the country changes so rapidly and so quickly. Of course, I wish you all the best. I hope that in these troubled times, we are able to take lessons from the past, and see how generations of our shared ancestors have been able to overcome the very real risks of displacement, war, and occupation. I also wish the Bulgarians safety in their mission. Though Turkey is a military power, their instability makes for a precarious political situation in which anything seems possible, with the ethnic Turks and the followers of Atatürk left holding the empty bag of promises. Of course, though the ideal is independence, the Turkish nation lives in you, and not in your soil. Hopefully, one day, we can all breathe easier.

[Böri]

Ethnic Anatolian Turks are going to be facing a challenging future as the demographics of the country changes so rapidly and so quickly.

Sure there are people who consider religion as the only requirement to live in Turkey and becoming citizen. With that logics, there is no problem in demographic liquidation of Turks. Contrary, if the newcomers are more Orthodoxly conservative than Turks it's even ok to replace Turks with them. Race doesnt matter. Thank you for your friendly good will. I also wish best for Bulgarian security forces which ofc just protect their sovereignty.

The fact you Europeans respect each other's demographic fabric is a good thing. When you enter in contact with MENAs you note that doesnt exist there.

[Gizem]

"Türkler Arapların dinini kabul etmeden evvel de büyük bir millet idi. Arap dinini kabul ettikten sonra bu din, ne Arapların, ne aynı dinde bulunan Acemlerin ve ne de Mısırlıların ve sâirenin Türklerle birleşip bir millet teşkil etmelerine hiçbir tesir etmedi. Bilakis, Türk milletinin milli rabıtalarını gevşetti; milli hislerini, milli heyecanlarını uyuşturdu. Bu pek tabii idi. Çünkü, Muhammed'in kurduğu dinin gayesi, bütün milliyetlerin fevkinde şamil bir Arap milliyeti siyasetine müncer oluyordu." - Atatürk, Medeni Bilgiler

[Hudayar]

Does Bulgaria have an army?