Turkish guards hit migrant boat with sticks

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Migrant crisis.
12 March 2016

The BBC has been given a video showing Turkish coastguard using sticks against a boat full of migrants as they sail to Greece in the Aegean Sea.
The incident is said to have happened in Turkish waters as the migrants were on their way to the island of Lesbos.

The migrants accused the coastguard of attacking them, but the coastguard say they were trying to stop the boat without harming the occupants.

The vast majority of coastguard patrols in the Aegean are professional, with Turkish and Greek personnel either towing migrant vessels back ashore or rescuing those that capsize. But there have been reports of attacks.

Masked officials on the Greek side were filmed last year appearing to puncture inflatable dinghies with migrants on board - and now this, with the Turkish coastguard claiming they were merely trying to stop the engine and stop the boat advancing.

It could be that these are individual coastguard officers acting on their own and not following orders, perhaps fuelled by machismo and even xenophobia. But it's also possible that this is more than an isolated case, showing the Turkish authorities going to any length to stem the migration flow under renewed pressure from Brussels.
Either way, it will worry EU leaders meeting later this week to finalise a plan with Turkey to reduce migrant numbers. Could these scenes be repeated as Turkey steps up patrols of Europe's borders?

The incident captured on the video is thought to have occurred in Turkish waters
opposite the island early on Saturday.

The 30-second clip shows people wearing life jackets on a rubber dinghy being hit with poles by men standing on another vessel. The people on the boat shout out in Farsi and Arabic.
The boat of migrants eventually moved away and made it to Lesbos.

Migrant crisis: Turkish guards hit migrant boat with sticks - BBC News

[wasabi]

"Sex in strange places" A BBC documentary, Stacey begins her journey in troubled Turkey.
Google BBC I player and see Turkey as you've never seen it before.

[harrybarracuda]

"Sex in strange places" A BBC documentary, Stacey begins her journey in troubled Turkey.
Google BBC I player and see Turkey as you've never seen it before.

Is that the mockney slapper who's always talking about "giws like me"".

[wasabi]

Stacey is blond, walks around Turkey with her golden locks uncovered and enjoys the chat up lines by young Men, and then answers them with feminist quotes.
She sees herself as a decent women, and being politically BBC correct , makes her quiet a catch.

[ENT]

A p*i*k teaser,..jail bait...

[harrybarracuda]

Stacey is blond, walks around Turkey with her golden locks uncovered and enjoys the chat up lines by young Men, and then answers them with feminist quotes.
She sees herself as a decent women, and being politically BBC correct , makes her quiet a catch.

Does she say "Wot sort of giw do you fink I am?" a lot?

[Conche]

You would think these people would somehow have got the message they are not wanted in europe by now .

Stay in the safe haven called Turkey

In the UK the ones that have made it are not having a good time of it with the locals

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And they won't have a good time of it in the future, either.

That whole stupid German experiment with taking in Turks a generation or more ago to boost industry, and now taking more migrants on as an economic fix, has meant that Germany can't keep up with its production and financial commitments necessary to achieve the dream of building a greater Germany as head of the EU.

Now Germany's got probably a quarter million unemployable Muslim males with nothing to do but cause trouble, any old way they can.

[Kurgen]

Kick fuck out of the kuntz, drown them if you have to.

Something has to be done to stop this invasion.