Erdoğan’s Deportation Statement Disconcerting and Unacceptable: EU

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s last week statement that, if necessary, Armenian citizens living illegally in Turkey would be deported are disconcerting and unacceptable, said EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee co-chair Hélène Flautre, according to Turkish daily Hürriyet.

The EU representative, stressing that Armenian migrants working illegally in Turkey are deprived of all their rights and are oppressed by the police, criticized Erdoğan’s threatening statements, considering them to be an attempt at “using those people as a lever for pressure in the process of normalizing Armenia-Turkey relations.”