Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan unleashed a vehement attack on the EU, claiming it cared more about gays and dogs than the suffering Syrian refugees. ’Shame on those who refuse to show 23 million Syrians the same sympathy as they do to whales, seals and turtles’, he said in a speech in southeastern Turkey, according to Associated Press. Erdogan blasted the west accusing it of having a mindset reminiscent of the age of ‘slavery and colonialism’. Following the deposing of Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu as the head of the ruling AKP party and Prime Minister, the Turkish president is raising the stakes, threatening to scrap the agreement his country reached on the refugees crisis with the EU, if the Europeans do not give him the free travel visas to the EU. Turkey refuses to comply with the remaining 5 of the 72 preconditions laid out in the deal, the most important of which is the revision of its anti-terrorist law.