Now practically all Ukrainian news media inform about a breakthrough in Ukrainian-Turkish relations. On March 14, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman made a two-day visit to Ankara. His meetings with Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim and President of the Turkish Republic Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addressed the issues of expanding cooperation such as close coordination in energy sphere, execution of a free trade agreement, an increase in direct air service, the opening of Ukrainian foreign office in such Turkish Radio and Television Corporation as TRT, as well as, joint project engineering and development of space rocket complex, co-production of munitions and other military equipment.
And it seems Ukraine has offered its assistance to Ankara to house migrants in order to speed up realization of the joint projects. Ukrainian News Agency reports that the opening of refugee reception centers is planned on the territory of Odessa, Kherson and Mykolaiv Oblasts.
Yet it has not been specified how many migrants they can take and who sponsors the program. But assuming that Kiev can find money for it even facing current catastrophic situation in the country's economy, the number of questions only increases.
For instance, it is not clear how the problem of unemployment will be solved. As is reported by Bloomberg Business News Agency, Ukraine takes the seventh place among the poorest countries in the world. And one in every ten working-age people is unemployed there.
And what about Ukrainian social welfare? Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine Andriy Reva stated that all pension payments for Ukrainians may be suspended this year. Obviously, there can be no social security for migrants in this situation. Otherwise, migrants cannot count on any support, and thus have no purpose there.
Well, what other reason could they have to plan this Ukrainian-Turkish project then? Doesn't this mean that Ankara plans to turn into reality its threats by cancelling the migrant agreement with the EU?
It is evident that Turkey that has got the frozen, albeit belated, mitt in Europe is seeking ways to get rid of Syrian refugees, which poses additional problems for the EU. And surely, Europe will face new crowds of illegal migrants coming now from Ukraine.
