⚠️‼️ DEBUNKING ‼️⚠️
🔴 Turkish "Blue Homeland" doctrine
Part 2/4: What is UNCLOS and why "Blue Homeland" violates international law?
🔸 UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) is a convention recognized by over 168 countries along with the EU as a block, making European countries dually represented by the European Union (Website giving in-depth expalation on UNCLOS)
🔸 It provides full economic rights to nations for a 200-mile zone by their shoreline. The sea and oceanic bed extending this area is regarded as an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and any country can use these waters for its economic utilisation
🔸 The EEZ can be seen as a country's safeguard or "reserve" for economic activities to prevent that other neighboring countries would commercially explore those waters and possibly damage economic activities and/or survival, which is even more important for islands or island-nations to sustain themselves
🔺 Turkish "Blue Homeland" only gives Turkey an EEZ
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🔴 Turkish "Blue Homeland" doctrine
Part 2/4: What is UNCLOS and why "Blue Homeland" violates international law?
🔸 UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea) is a convention recognized by over 168 countries along with the EU as a block, making European countries dually represented by the European Union (Website giving in-depth expalation on UNCLOS)
🔸 It provides full economic rights to nations for a 200-mile zone by their shoreline. The sea and oceanic bed extending this area is regarded as an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), and any country can use these waters for its economic utilisation
🔸 The EEZ can be seen as a country's safeguard or "reserve" for economic activities to prevent that other neighboring countries would commercially explore those waters and possibly damage economic activities and/or survival, which is even more important for islands or island-nations to sustain themselves
🔺 Turkish "Blue Homeland" only gives Turkey an EEZ
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⚠️‼️ DEBUNKING ‼️⚠️
🔴 Turkish "Blue Homeland" doctrine
Part 3/4: Inconsistencies and why "Blue Homeland" will never prevail
🔸 Turkey's inconsistencies regarding UNCLOS show their hypocrisy and double standards, something even European countries such as Germany (their biggest ally) have called Turkey out for
🔸 In particular, Turkey uses UNCLOS standards to set their EEZ in the black sea, but then breaks UNCLOS in the Aegean by violating the EEZs of Greek islands and Cyprus, not to mention other countries, showing their partiality and disregard for international agreements
🔸 The EU itself recognizes UNCLOS, which means that as long as Turkey insists on "Blue Homeland", it will not be able to join the EU due to fundamental differences and the overall tensions and threats against EU member states due to this very doctrine
🔸 The EU itself and its states are bound to support Greece in case Turkey insists on this doctrine and becomes aggressive
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🔴 Turkish "Blue Homeland" doctrine
Part 3/4: Inconsistencies and why "Blue Homeland" will never prevail
🔸 Turkey's inconsistencies regarding UNCLOS show their hypocrisy and double standards, something even European countries such as Germany (their biggest ally) have called Turkey out for
🔸 In particular, Turkey uses UNCLOS standards to set their EEZ in the black sea, but then breaks UNCLOS in the Aegean by violating the EEZs of Greek islands and Cyprus, not to mention other countries, showing their partiality and disregard for international agreements
🔸 The EU itself recognizes UNCLOS, which means that as long as Turkey insists on "Blue Homeland", it will not be able to join the EU due to fundamental differences and the overall tensions and threats against EU member states due to this very doctrine
🔸 The EU itself and its states are bound to support Greece in case Turkey insists on this doctrine and becomes aggressive
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⚠️‼️ DEBUNKING ‼️⚠️
🔴 Turkish "Blue Homeland" doctrine
Part 4/4: impacts of "Blue Homeland"
🔸 Most of "Blue Homeland's" impact so far was to create smoke screens for the Turkish public to focus on something other than their internal problems (link here and here)
🔸 Thankfully Greece has not backed down (Post on Turkish Frigate that got rammed) to Turkey's aggressive behavior, always responding politically and with military presence in the region of these provocations, sometimes issuing military trainings in areas near or overlaping the ones Turkey wants to survey for gas (Link to post here and another post here)
🔸 Turkey also recruits fishermen (Link to post here) and sends its coast guard to escort them into Greek waters to validate the claim that they have rights to those waters, something that had no results despite the fact that it leads to conflicts between fishermen from both countries as well as Coast Guard ships (Link to latest post here)
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🔴 Turkish "Blue Homeland" doctrine
Part 4/4: impacts of "Blue Homeland"
🔸 Most of "Blue Homeland's" impact so far was to create smoke screens for the Turkish public to focus on something other than their internal problems (link here and here)
🔸 Thankfully Greece has not backed down (Post on Turkish Frigate that got rammed) to Turkey's aggressive behavior, always responding politically and with military presence in the region of these provocations, sometimes issuing military trainings in areas near or overlaping the ones Turkey wants to survey for gas (Link to post here and another post here)
🔸 Turkey also recruits fishermen (Link to post here) and sends its coast guard to escort them into Greek waters to validate the claim that they have rights to those waters, something that had no results despite the fact that it leads to conflicts between fishermen from both countries as well as Coast Guard ships (Link to latest post here)
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 FRONTEX reports 64% increase in the entries of illegal immigrants in the EU in 2022
>https://archive.is/WsDEU
🔸 330,000 illegal immigrants entered the EU in 2022 according tothe extremely incompetent FRONTEX. 45% of these illegals used the "Balkan corridor" to reach the EU.
‼️ These are the highest numbers since 2016
🔸 "This is the second year in a row with a strong increase in the number of illegal entries" says Frontex in a statement, clarifying that Syrians, Afghans and Tunisians together represent 47% of illegal entries into the European Union in 2022
‼️ 145,000 crossings were recorded on the Western Balkans corridor, an increase of 136% compared to the previous year
‼️ On the Central Mediterranean, the number of crossings exceeded 100,000, corresponding to an increase of 50%
‼️⚠️‼️ Only 10% of these illegal immigrants are women and 9% minors according with the report
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🔴 FRONTEX reports 64% increase in the entries of illegal immigrants in the EU in 2022
>https://archive.is/WsDEU
🔸 330,000 illegal immigrants entered the EU in 2022 according to
‼️ These are the highest numbers since 2016
🔸 "This is the second year in a row with a strong increase in the number of illegal entries" says Frontex in a statement, clarifying that Syrians, Afghans and Tunisians together represent 47% of illegal entries into the European Union in 2022
‼️ 145,000 crossings were recorded on the Western Balkans corridor, an increase of 136% compared to the previous year
‼️ On the Central Mediterranean, the number of crossings exceeded 100,000, corresponding to an increase of 50%
‼️⚠️‼️ Only 10% of these illegal immigrants are women and 9% minors according with the report
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🔴 Turkish NGOs seek compensation for properties in Rhodes, Kos, Crete and Thrace (highlited above)
>https://archive.ph/y3fLG
🔸 This is related to a lawsuit by 4 Turkish citizens who are claiming compensation for lands which their ancestors owned in those places. The land was seized by Italy when it occupied the Dodecanese in 1940
🔸 The Turks are appealing in court and seek compensation up to 5 Million Euros from the Greek Government
🔸 More than 100 Turkish NGOs have launched a legal campaign to claim Turkish-owned assets, including the Dodecanese, including Kos and Rhodes, Western Thrace and Crete. "The issue is planned to be raised at the United Nations, the European Union, the European Security Cooperation Organization, as well as the European Court of Human Rights through Turkish NGOs"
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>https://archive.ph/y3fLG
🔸 This is related to a lawsuit by 4 Turkish citizens who are claiming compensation for lands which their ancestors owned in those places. The land was seized by Italy when it occupied the Dodecanese in 1940
🔸 The Turks are appealing in court and seek compensation up to 5 Million Euros from the Greek Government
🔸 More than 100 Turkish NGOs have launched a legal campaign to claim Turkish-owned assets, including the Dodecanese, including Kos and Rhodes, Western Thrace and Crete. "The issue is planned to be raised at the United Nations, the European Union, the European Security Cooperation Organization, as well as the European Court of Human Rights through Turkish NGOs"
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🟢 The need to be seen as delusional and ridiculous seems to be a cultural trait of Turks@GreekBordersGeneral
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🔴 Erdogan: "Greece harasses our borders every day, we can and will come (invade/attack) suddenly overnight"
>https://archive.ph/WeRrZ
🔸 During the inauguration ceremony of the Marmaris-Datca road Erdogan once again made threatening comments towards Greece, perhaps to keep the attention of Turks on what happens outside the country
🔸 Addressing Turkish citizens, Erdogan initially said: "As long as Greece behaves well, we have no business and it does not need to fear missiles." And he added, insisting on Turkish fake news: "Greece harasses our borders every day"
🔸 "For 20 years, we hope to mobilize the vision of the "Century of Turkey" in the same way as we did with the projects we achieved. Are we ready to build the "Century of Turkey" together? Are we ready to frustrate the ambitions of Turkey's external and internal enemies? Are we ready to welcome the new century of the Republic in 2023 as Turkey together, my brothers and sisters?"
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>https://archive.ph/WeRrZ
🔸 During the inauguration ceremony of the Marmaris-Datca road Erdogan once again made threatening comments towards Greece, perhaps to keep the attention of Turks on what happens outside the country
🔸 Addressing Turkish citizens, Erdogan initially said: "As long as Greece behaves well, we have no business and it does not need to fear missiles." And he added, insisting on Turkish fake news: "Greece harasses our borders every day"
🔸 "For 20 years, we hope to mobilize the vision of the "Century of Turkey" in the same way as we did with the projects we achieved. Are we ready to build the "Century of Turkey" together? Are we ready to frustrate the ambitions of Turkey's external and internal enemies? Are we ready to welcome the new century of the Republic in 2023 as Turkey together, my brothers and sisters?"
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🔴 UN showcases once again its extreme incompetence and uselessness regarding the illegal Turkish occupation of Cyprus
>https://archive.ph/tz3ul
🔸 UN Secretary General realizes "there is no common ground for talks" after decades trying to promote meetings and discussions between the parties involved in the illegal Turkish occupation of Cyprus and achieving no progress
🔸 Every country in Europe does not recognize the occupation and demand that Turkish troops leave, not a single relevant country in the world recognizes the occupied territories as being an independent country
‼️ Turkey on the other hand wants two states to exist in the island, Cyprus and "Northern Cyprus" (which would be controlled by Turkey) as they call the occupied territories, also with the condition that Cyprus should also share Natural Gas revenues with "Northern Cyprus"
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>https://archive.ph/tz3ul
🔸 UN Secretary General realizes "there is no common ground for talks" after decades trying to promote meetings and discussions between the parties involved in the illegal Turkish occupation of Cyprus and achieving no progress
🔸 Every country in Europe does not recognize the occupation and demand that Turkish troops leave, not a single relevant country in the world recognizes the occupied territories as being an independent country
‼️ Turkey on the other hand wants two states to exist in the island, Cyprus and "Northern Cyprus" (which would be controlled by Turkey) as they call the occupied territories, also with the condition that Cyprus should also share Natural Gas revenues with "Northern Cyprus"
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⚠️‼️ IMPORTANT ‼️⚠️
🔴 Turkish mafia boss and intelligence operative threatens Greek Ambassador after being denied a travel visa
>https://archive.ph/XvQod
🔸 Alaattin Çakici was released from jail in 2020 due to a law to avoid the spread of COVID inside jails
🔸 The mafia boss made a lenghty post about how many countries he has visited and lived in before, from the U.S to Europe and Asia, saying that he was able to get the Greek Visa twice in the past and was promissed his visa would be stamped right in front of him this time, but found out it was denied
🔸 He then said Greece did it because of it's 'crusading spirit' and that Greece has not forgotten its defeat to the Ottoman Empire
🟢 Turks already killed a Russian Official before, this could be considered a credible threat, it gives another reason to deny the visa
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🔴 Turkish mafia boss and intelligence operative threatens Greek Ambassador after being denied a travel visa
>https://archive.ph/XvQod
🔸 Alaattin Çakici was released from jail in 2020 due to a law to avoid the spread of COVID inside jails
🔸 The mafia boss made a lenghty post about how many countries he has visited and lived in before, from the U.S to Europe and Asia, saying that he was able to get the Greek Visa twice in the past and was promissed his visa would be stamped right in front of him this time, but found out it was denied
🔸 He then said Greece did it because of it's 'crusading spirit' and that Greece has not forgotten its defeat to the Ottoman Empire
/GBG/🟢 Turks already killed a Russian Official before, this could be considered a credible threat, it gives another reason to deny the visa
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🔴 Libyan court cancels illegal deal between Turkey and Libya
>https://archive.ph/FtR74
🔸 The Tripoli court of appeals suspended the "hydrocarbon exploration agreement" signed between Turkey and Libya last year
🔸 The deal was made based on the illegal EEZ demarcation between Turkey and Libya, signed in 2019, which ignores Greece's EEZ, thus violating international law (link to post about subject here)
🔸 The "hydrocarbon exploration agreement" splits the supposed EEZ area in two where Turkey and Libya would have agreed to look for and possibly explore hydrocarbons in case it was found in this area
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>https://archive.ph/FtR74
🔸 The Tripoli court of appeals suspended the "hydrocarbon exploration agreement" signed between Turkey and Libya last year
🔸 The deal was made based on the illegal EEZ demarcation between Turkey and Libya, signed in 2019, which ignores Greece's EEZ, thus violating international law (link to post about subject here)
🔸 The "hydrocarbon exploration agreement" splits the supposed EEZ area in two where Turkey and Libya would have agreed to look for and possibly explore hydrocarbons in case it was found in this area
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‼️⚠️ IMPORTANT ⚠️‼️
🔴 A port guard was sentenced to 280 years in prison for smuggling illegal immigrants in Rhodes
>https://archive.is/oPZb4
🔸 The port guard was part of a ring that smuggled illegal immigrants from Turkey to Greece, 3 people were arrested and have now been sentenced by the court of appeals. The leader of the ring has evaded arrest and is still at large, he is reportedly a Palestinian
🔸 The court imposed on the Greek 39-year-old guard a total prison sentence of 280 years and a fine of 1,377,000 euros, on his Palestinian accomplice a total prison sentence of 272 years and a fine of 1,364,000 euros and on the 28-year-old Albanian a total prison sentence of 27 years and a total fine of 111,000 euros
‼️ Sadly, Greek law only allows criminals to be kept in jail for a maximum of 20 years
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🔴 A port guard was sentenced to 280 years in prison for smuggling illegal immigrants in Rhodes
>https://archive.is/oPZb4
🔸 The port guard was part of a ring that smuggled illegal immigrants from Turkey to Greece, 3 people were arrested and have now been sentenced by the court of appeals. The leader of the ring has evaded arrest and is still at large, he is reportedly a Palestinian
🔸 The court imposed on the Greek 39-year-old guard a total prison sentence of 280 years and a fine of 1,377,000 euros, on his Palestinian accomplice a total prison sentence of 272 years and a fine of 1,364,000 euros and on the 28-year-old Albanian a total prison sentence of 27 years and a total fine of 111,000 euros
‼️ Sadly, Greek law only allows criminals to be kept in jail for a maximum of 20 years
/GBG/🟢 This case has set a few good precedents leading to harsher sentences, sadly European Law usually does not have very harsh penalties
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🔴 Turkish Foreign Minister left meeting with American FM empty handed
>https://archive.is/21omN
🔸 Turkey has been attempting to negotiate for a positive report in which Turkey would be allowed to buy more F-16 jets and update part of its fleet
🔸 The meeting was fruitless, the strengthening US-Turkey defense cooperation which its main focus is the acquisition and upgrade of F-16s which was denied once the U.S has many conditions before the Biden government would support the deal again
🔸 The main reason for the denial was the Turkish VETO against the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO and that while Turkey blocks both countries, the Biden government will not support the deal anymore
🔸 The Turkish FM complained that the only voice being heard in the U.S regarding the deal is Menendes' who constantly lobbies against the deal due to Turkey's threats towards Greece and constant airspace violations using fighter jets
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>https://archive.is/21omN
🔸 Turkey has been attempting to negotiate for a positive report in which Turkey would be allowed to buy more F-16 jets and update part of its fleet
🔸 The meeting was fruitless, the strengthening US-Turkey defense cooperation which its main focus is the acquisition and upgrade of F-16s which was denied once the U.S has many conditions before the Biden government would support the deal again
🔸 The main reason for the denial was the Turkish VETO against the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO and that while Turkey blocks both countries, the Biden government will not support the deal anymore
🔸 The Turkish FM complained that the only voice being heard in the U.S regarding the deal is Menendes' who constantly lobbies against the deal due to Turkey's threats towards Greece and constant airspace violations using fighter jets
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🔴 Swedes held a Kuran burning demonstration in front of the Turkish Embassy in Stockholm
>https://archive.is/aY0wy
>https://archive.is/oQkJV
🔸 "If someone doesn't believe there should be freedom of expression here, they should go live somewhere else" Paludan, who has held protests in the past where he has burned a copy of the Koran, said in a nearly hour-long speech
🔸 The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs made an official statement condemning the demonstration and calling it a "Hate Crime"
🔸 "To allow this anti-Islamic act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of 'freedom of expression' is completely unacceptable. This is a pure hate crime. We call on the Swedish authorities to take the necessary measures against the perpetrators of this hate crime"
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>https://archive.is/aY0wy
>https://archive.is/oQkJV
🔸 "If someone doesn't believe there should be freedom of expression here, they should go live somewhere else" Paludan, who has held protests in the past where he has burned a copy of the Koran, said in a nearly hour-long speech
🔸 The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs made an official statement condemning the demonstration and calling it a "Hate Crime"
🔸 "To allow this anti-Islamic act, which targets Muslims and insults our sacred values, under the guise of 'freedom of expression' is completely unacceptable. This is a pure hate crime. We call on the Swedish authorities to take the necessary measures against the perpetrators of this hate crime"
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🔴 Austria to lobby in the EU for Bulgaria to receive € 2 Billion to reinforce its border with Turkey
>https://archive.is/pvjOP
🔸 Chancellor Karl Neuhammer met with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, they discussed and personally visited the southern border
🔸 "Protecting the Bulgarian-Turkish border also means protecting the Austrian border. We are very grateful for the efforts made by the Bulgarian state to protect these borders. Austria supports Bulgaria's efforts and we will put pressure to give these two billion euros that are needed" Nehammer said
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>https://archive.is/pvjOP
🔸 Chancellor Karl Neuhammer met with Bulgarian President Rumen Radev, they discussed and personally visited the southern border
🔸 "Protecting the Bulgarian-Turkish border also means protecting the Austrian border. We are very grateful for the efforts made by the Bulgarian state to protect these borders. Austria supports Bulgaria's efforts and we will put pressure to give these two billion euros that are needed" Nehammer said
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🔴 Erdogan officially announced the Turkish elections will be held on May 14
>https://archive.is/nwH7Y
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>https://archive.is/nwH7Y
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🔴 Dutch ambassador to Turkey summoned after a protest in Hague where a man tore up pages from the Quran
>https://archive.is/XKngd
>https://archive.is/oyQtT
🗿 Edwin Wagensveld, the leader of the anti-Islamic organization PEGIDA was the one ripping pages off the Quran and stomping on them
🔸 "The Dutch ambassador in Turkey was summoned to our ministry and we condemned and protested this heinous and despicable act and demanded that the Netherlands not allow such provocative actions"
🔸 "This abhorrent act, which took place this time in the Netherlands after Sweden, insulting our sacred values and involving a hate crime, is a clear statement that Islamophobia, discrimination and xenophobia know no borders in Europe" the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs underlines
🟢 The hypocrisy of a country converting churches into mosques or completely destroying them and allowing vandalism against churches that predate islam and Turks altogether
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>https://archive.is/XKngd
>https://archive.is/oyQtT
🗿 Edwin Wagensveld, the leader of the anti-Islamic organization PEGIDA was the one ripping pages off the Quran and stomping on them
🔸 "The Dutch ambassador in Turkey was summoned to our ministry and we condemned and protested this heinous and despicable act and demanded that the Netherlands not allow such provocative actions"
🔸 "This abhorrent act, which took place this time in the Netherlands after Sweden, insulting our sacred values and involving a hate crime, is a clear statement that Islamophobia, discrimination and xenophobia know no borders in Europe" the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs underlines
🟢 The hypocrisy of a country converting churches into mosques or completely destroying them and allowing vandalism against churches that predate islam and Turks altogether
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🟢 Quran destroying season in Europe?@GreekBordersGeneral
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⚠️‼️ EXPOSED ‼️⚠️
🔴 Woman posing as "refugee" during incident with 38 illegals "stuck" in Evros river exposed
>https://archive.is/n4dU8
🔸 Influencer and book writer, Baidaa Al Saleh, was exposed by Swiss NZZ. She lives in Palatinate, Germany, since 2021 and constantly posted her location as "Germany" or "Turkey"
🔸 In August 2022 she sent pictures to Der Spiegel claiming that she and a group of illegal immigrants were denied entry into Greece and were stranded in an islet in the middle of the Evros river without food (Link to post here)
‼️ Shortly after she posted a video of a plane taking off from Athens and saying she had arrived in Germany "after a lot of struggle"
🔸 Der Spiegel 'missed' her previous posts with pictures from Germany and from Turkey (for the release of one of her books), her name was also not on the list of illegals who sent a complaint to the ECHR after said incident
⚠️ Her account has been deleted
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🔴 Woman posing as "refugee" during incident with 38 illegals "stuck" in Evros river exposed
>https://archive.is/n4dU8
(full report in German)
>https://archive.is/3V5yE🔸 Influencer and book writer, Baidaa Al Saleh, was exposed by Swiss NZZ. She lives in Palatinate, Germany, since 2021 and constantly posted her location as "Germany" or "Turkey"
🔸 In August 2022 she sent pictures to Der Spiegel claiming that she and a group of illegal immigrants were denied entry into Greece and were stranded in an islet in the middle of the Evros river without food (Link to post here)
‼️ Shortly after she posted a video of a plane taking off from Athens and saying she had arrived in Germany "after a lot of struggle"
🔸 Der Spiegel 'missed' her previous posts with pictures from Germany and from Turkey (for the release of one of her books), her name was also not on the list of illegals who sent a complaint to the ECHR after said incident
⚠️ Her account has been deleted
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