Islamist 'Dictatorship' Turkey Once Again 'Ignores' German MP's Request to Visit Incirlik Airbase.

Islamist 'Dictatorship' Turkey Once Again 'Ignores' German MP's Request to Visit Incirlik Airbase. (SP).

According to German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag", the foreign policy spokesman of the Left Party, Jan van Aken, informed the Turkish Federal Foreign Office about his plans to visit the Turkish base and talk to 250 Bundeswehr soldiers stationed there.

However, so far, the Turkish authorities have not responded to his request. "There has been no reply to the request I've sent on Wednesday to the Federal Foreign Office," van Aken told the newspaper.

The politician demanded that the Bundestag should not adopt the upcoming extension of the Incirlik mandate in November if Turkey bans German MPs from visiting the military base again.

Earlier, a representative of the Turkish parliamentary committee on defense warned members of the German Bundestag against raising the Armenian issue again, a statement that clearly sounded like a kind of threat, the politician noted.  Read the full story here.

EU-Turkey 'deal' not legally binding, says EP legal chief.

EU-Turkey 'deal' not legally binding, says EP legal chief. (EUObserver).

The EU-Turkey deal was "nothing more than a press communique", the lawyer said.

The legal arm of the European Parliament on Monday (9 May) spoke out against the EU deal with Turkey.

It noted the statement between the two on 18 March is nothing more than a press release, which has no legal bearing.

"This statement was nothing more than a press communique," the parliament lawyer told MEPs in the civil liberties committee. "This statement is not a binding agreement."

He noted the statement came without any signatures and was not published in the Official Journal of the European Union.

"It is very difficult to conclude that both the European Union and Turkey wanted to be legally bound under international law by this declaration," he said.

"It is really a long way from the drafting standards of any international agreement," he said.
Despite the lack of clarity behind the statement, it still conforms to EU law, he noted.

Parliament will still have to sign off on visa-waiver plans and other issues like the budget and the resettlement of people on the one-to-one migrant swap deal. Hmmm.........Who authorized the 6 Billion Euro in aid to Turkey? Read the full story here.

EP stops work on Turkey visa waiver https://t.co/phOrTDLx3t

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) May 11, 2016

Strong words by Leader of ALDE Group for Tusk & Timmermans and their misguided refugee 'deal' with Turkey.

Strong words by Leader of ALDE Group for Tusk & Timmermans and their misguided refugee 'deal' with Turkey. (PoliticoEU). By Guy Verhofstadt.

Europe bribes Turkey - Throwing money at Ankara won’t resolve this refugee crisis.

The summit committed the EU to an “initial” sum of €3 billion, to support Syrians under temporary protection in Turkey. However, it is not clear what support Turkey will provide to the refugees thanks to this money, or whether it will finally open its job market and provide schools and education to hundreds of thousands of Syrian children.

In return for our money, Turkey has agreed, starting in June 2016, to take back those migrants who are not in need of international protection, and who came to the EU through Turkish territory. If the aim is to “stem the flow,” this is a deeply flawed approach, as the number of people streaming into the EU who are not in need of international protection is extremely low.

The vast majority of people arriving are Syrians who will not be taken back by Turkey. It is thus highly unlikely that the numbers coming will be reduced. Indeed, the prime minister of Turkey stated at the post-summit press conference that he could not guarantee any reduction in the number of refugees arriving in Greece. One might therefore question the underlying logic behind the whole exercise. Hmmm......Good thing Lebanon isn't a cry baby like Turkey....or is it a Mafia group? Read the full story here.

PS: Turkey does not grant the same UN Refugees protection as others do. 

The #EU is committed to provide an initial 3 billion euro of additional resources. It's obvious this is only the start of 'milking' the #EU

— MFS - The Other News (@MFS001) November 30, 2015

And then there's THIS: