Quote Originally Posted by Hazir View Post
Yes they were, Greece is in the EU, and so is Italy. As for stopping them, for god's sake just for once look at a map of the Aegean islands and guess how far some of the Greek islands are away from the turkish mainland. I can tell you there are people who with a little bit of training can literally swim to the Greek island of Kastellorizo.
Hundreds of thousands have crossed into Italy and Greece since Merkel slammed the door wide open unilaterally with the numbers increasing dramatically. Those who have gone into the EU in recent months were not in the EU when Merkel unilaterally made her decision to abandon internationally agreed rules (expecting to then dump the reaction into other states).