A large group of Syrians in Turkey is planning to form a caravan to reach the European Union.
Plans to form a caravan to travel to the EU from Turkey are being drawn up online via a Telegram channel, set up last week and followed by almost 70,000 people.
Organizers are calling on people to bring sleeping bags, tents, life jackets, water, canned food and first aid kits.
“We will announce it when it’s time to go”, one organizer who wished to remain anonymous, told news agency AFP.
Some of the organizers already lived in the EU, he added.
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Organizers say the caravan will be split into groups of up to 50 people, each led by a supervisor.
Analysts underlines that the caravan is one more attempt of Turkey to weaponize the illegal immigration flows by pushing them towards Greece and the EU as Ankara wants to put pressure on primarily Greece and push for more funding from the EU.
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