SI16

Collective text about Special Issue 16

Our Special Issue is a toolkit to mess around with language: from its standard taxonomies and tags, to its modes of organizing information and its shaping knowledge. With these tools we want to legitimize failures and amatorial practices by proposing a more vernacular understanding of language.

We decided to release the SI16 toolkit in the form of an API (Application Programming Interface). APIs often organise and serve data and knowledge. What is not always evident is that they facilitate the exchange of information between different software programs and systems according to mainly commercial standards and purposes.

Our API is an attempt at a more critical and vernacular approach to such model of distribution. You didn't get a thing yet? Don't worry! We are also on our way and that's the whole point of this experimental enquiry.

Personal reflection

In the SI16 I co-produced the project "...And I wish that your question has been answered". I also participated in the writing of the Manifesto of and the Terms of service of the publication. In the project I worked on the functions Respell, Stitch and Reveal, which are based on the Replace Python function. I was occupied by the urge to understand how the choice of specific words inside a text can shape our ideologies. In that sense I proposed to use the three functions on the political speeches of Mark Rutte and Kiriakos Mitsotakis, prime ministers of Netherlands and Greece, about the pushbacks on the EU borders. As a result, we came out with an interface where a user can interchange specific words of these 2 speeches with others words, characters or blankets in order to disrupt and question the meaning of the original texts.

First approaches to vernacular and language processing

Special Issue #16

Texts to discuss *

28/09/21
my translation of a greek partisan song and the queer take on that same song
5/10/21
Five experiental reconstructions of Peiraki-Patraikis's occupation. The experiental map of Panayiotis "Vernacular processing: what is a vocabulary?"

mini exercises

4/10/21
with Camo, Cara, Emma
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/collab_week3

12/10/21
with supi
https://pad.xpub.nl/p/supi_mitsa

Prototyping

First steps into learning Python

• Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities notebooks for chapters 4,5,6,7,8,15
• Natural Language Processing with Python notebooks for chapters 1,2

Approaching the vernacular through the theme of rejection

after our first group meeting

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Rejection_Glossary

   rejection as a discourse
   rejection as a continuous renegotiation between filters
   rejection as exclusion
   rejection as fractal
   rejection as spectrum
   rejection as contingency (really like this)
   rejection as violence
   rejection as oppression
   rejection as ritual
   rejection as defensive spell
   rejection as misunderstanding 
   rejection as border
   rejection as layer
   rejection as interface
   rejection as a selection process
   rejection as a filter
   rejection as incomplete structure
   rejection as foundation
   rejection as truth / honesty
   rejection as clarification, transcription, simplification
   rejection as interpretation/translation
   rejection as digestion/metabolization
   rejection as instrument
   rejection as curation
   rejection as invitation
   rejection as inclusion
   rejection as care 
   rejection as direction
   rejection as orientation
   rejection as negative ontology for identity formation
   rejection as tactic 
   rejection as a trigger for action
   rejection as turning point
   rejection as plot twist
   rejection as suspense
   rejection as narration and world-building
   rejection as an act of love
   rejection as a metaphor
   rejection as heritage

Collaboration, Conflict & Consent workshop

Really important workshop on non-violent communication.
The importance of expressing my needs and aknowledging the needs of the others
https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Mitsa_selfportrait

The forced poetics and the making of Special Issue 16

really inspired by Clara's lecture on vernacular design and forced poetics

• publishing is a validation
• vernacular is the language of the oppressed
• the forced poetics emerge when the language you speak cannot express what you want
• making a language that is impenetrable for the masters

conversation with Carmen and Erica

• the vernacular as encrypted languages between allies
• the audience should be the ordinary
• self experience is central
• what are the power relations inside the system we are addressing?

conversation and diagrams with Erica about forced poetics and empowerment

• you are an expert of what you experience
• the standarisation gatekeeps the vernacular
• the hegemonic gatekeeps the urge
• there is a barrier created by the correct, the beautiful, the tasty that blocks the urge
• and this barrier is created through power
• conflict between the content that needs to be expressed and the available language
• how to use a tool that you don't master?

Prototyping with the replace function

First prototype of replace function, with Erica

new_text = print(text.replace('reason',' 👮reason👮').replace('Reason','👮Reason👮').replace('High','👨‍⚖️High👨‍⚖️').replace('normal','🔫normal🔫').replace('Objective','(⊙▃⊙)Objective(⊙▃⊙)').replace('objective','(⊙▃⊙)objective').replace('planet','🇺🇸planet🇺🇸').replace('foreign','🪖foreign🪖'))

You know that by this time what is called 'mechanical instinct' had gradually been engendered in them, as is 🔫normal🔫 in three-brained beings. The sacred members of the Most 👨‍⚖️High👨‍⚖️ Commission then  👮reason👮ed that if this mechanical instinct in the biped three-brained beings of that 🇺🇸planet🇺🇸 were to develop toward the attainment of (⊙▃⊙)Objective(⊙▃⊙) 👮Reason👮, as usually occurs everywhere among three-brained beings, it might possibly happen that they would prematurely comprehend the  👮reason👮 for their presence on that 🇺🇸planet🇺🇸 and would then make a good deal of trouble; it might happen that once they understood the  👮reason👮 for their arising, namely, that by their existence they should maintain the detached fragments of their 🇺🇸planet🇺🇸, and became convinced of their slavery to circumstances utterly 🪖foreign🪖 to them, they would refuse to continue this existence of theirs and on principle destroy themselves.

Applying the replace function on Bataille's Solar Anus

pad of text analysis

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/solar_anus

notebook with experiment

new = solar_anus.replace('sun','moon').replace('SUN','MOON').replace('solar','lunar').replace('phalluses','dilidos').replace('shafts','strapons').replace('phalloid','dilidoid')

(and this list of replacements should go on and on and on)
because the rise of the solar anus, although is an answer to the philosophical determinism, it's pretty phalocentric.

SI #16 Manifesto

https://hub.xpub.nl/soupboat/si16/intro/

Manifesto

with Carmen, Erica, Kim, Gersande

Dear friend and online scroller,
Beloved internet user, Dearest binge watcher and human being IRL,
XPUB1 (The Experimental Publishing Master from Piet Zwart Institute) welcomes you to the Special Issue 16 on vernacular language processing: "Learning How to Walk while Catwalking."
Hu? How do you learn how to walk while catwalking?

Be confident, be ambitious and be ready to fail a lot. Our Special Issue is a toolkit to mess around with language: from its standard taxonomies and tags, to its modes of organizing information and its shaping knowledge. With these tools we want to legitimize failures and amatorial practices by proposing a more vernacular understanding of language. We decided to release the Special Issue 16-toolkit in the form of an API (Application Programming Interface). APIs often organise and serve data and knowledge. What is not always evident is that they facilitate the exchange of information between different software programs and systems according to mainly commercial standards and purposes. We chose instead to build a process that responds to the topics we are working with. Our API is an attempt at a more critical and vernacular approach to such model of distribution. You didn't get a thing yet? Don't worry! We are also on our way and that's the whole point of this experimental enquiry. We will be happy to guide you through the API and the different functions included in it, share our technical struggles and findings. This project is characterized by the elaboration of vernacular methods of processing. The material we process comes from various sources. For some of it, we appropriated existing texts and compiled them into corpora. For others, the activation of certain functions calls for an audience’s input. The participatory aspect of the functions is an important factor that unites them.

Since we are working with filters, we realized how every cultural object rejects and filters its public. We want to question these limitations focusing on accessibility and proposing several entry points to our project. API, there’s this very good meme that, I think, explains it in a rather good way. Imagine a bar with different staff in it: The cooks working in the kitchen would be the ‘backend’, the ones behind the bar the ‘frontend’, andddd the waiters running from the bar to the tables are the API!

Something that feels informal, approachable, "ours" and not imposed standarized forms. Organic, with the spanish opening times, etc. Approachable.

wtf I don't really understand but I like it

In other words, a toolkit for processing language with a vernacular attitude. This toolkit does not only consist of a set of tools but also of a world we are building around them: how do we want these tools to affect reality? This toolkit can be expanded, as new tools can be added to it and the world around them being stretched. There is a strong focus on the way we are working on it: a decentralized approach that builds from the ground up. Ambitious! Political! Unstable! ...but as some point embracing this unstability, trying to learn and care for each other, while learning python and caring for API .

I think of it as a personification of something that's intended to be functional, in that we assign the API a particular behavior so that it does the unexpected.

Opening times?

We are confident, we are ambitious and we are failing a lot while Learning How To Walk While Catwalking. We want to legitimize failures and amateur practices outside the hierarchy of experience. We want to care of each other in the process of learning, now between us, and then with you. We approach the text as a texture, a malleable clay tablet, a space for foreign input and extensive modifications, for cut-up and for collage, for collective agency and participation. Not a surface but a volume, in which the text is not only text, but a shared space. We work to sort out several meanings from the same word. We intend to blur our roles as authors, users and public because this is an act of collective world building.

I was invited to get onto an online platform for something called the Special Issue 16(?) The front, or first page has an index with some descriptions. Overall it had to do with texts, and ways of modifying them, I think.

Landing on Special Issue 16 page, reading the 'about' page. Finding out about several projects, triggered by the different showcases. As I gain interest in one of the example, I click on a link and read about the intention from which this tool departed.

So well, I am in front of the screen, I click on the first link and get a description and a sort of instruction of how to use their tools. Fine, I'll use the tool. It seems like I'm not the only one who has been invited here, the layout is unfamiliar, but I see how I could partake in it. And if I do, well, the next person will also have something else to deal with, I'm into that. What could I write? I write. Oh, wasn't that hard.

Unapologetic. Fearless. Eager. Playful. Brave. Persistent. Experimental. Bvvvrruummm

I am curious to know even more, I click on the shared folder link and am redirected to a library of tools. Finding out I can use this tool for my own purposes. I start scrolling through the multiple tools offered there. From the tool I was initially interested on, I drift to another snippet that calls my attention. From there, I click on the link offering a 'showcase view'. I get acquainted with the example. Zooming out, I land on the 'about page' to which that project belongs. More tools are offered but I am not interested in more tools. I zoom out more, and I find the 'introduction', which informs me about the general purpose of this page.

OMG THIS IS. HERE?

wow these people are so meta

can you buy me a coke?

I clicked on the link to access this website: oh what happens nice! nice colours, I have icons to click on but I clicked on one and I've seen many things i don't understand so it's better to know what this is about first because I don't understand so I click on the about page. Ok let's move back to the homepage. I can choose between projects and functions (again, what's this????) ok maybe by looking at the projects I will understand better...

Embracing the chaos that comes with the learning curve.

I click on a link and am brought to a page and keep clicking, can't stop clicking, super curious what's happening here, not sure what exactly yet, but it doesn't matter. I see the about page but I'd rather not read it because I like surprises. Looks like they're making a lot of experimental tools I've never heard of before but always wanted to try.

What is this all about? Shall we open the window for some fresh air?.

Yes that was a bit conceptual but basically, our project is meant to give a bunch of users several tools such as : ✂️ scissors, 📃 sticky notes, ✏️ pencils, erasers, and printed paper. ✂️🖊📝✏️📃 And let them have fun. Cutting it and putting it together, making notes and writing jokes… But everything in a digital format. Q&A link link link Special Issue 16—Learning How to Walk while Catwalking

...and I wish that your question has been answered

the question

Ingeborg Beugel De Groene Amsterdammer reporter:

I have one question for both of you.

Prime Minister Mitsotakis, when at last will you stop lying, lying about pushbacks, lying about what is happening with the refugees in Greece?

Please don’t insult mine and neither the intelligence of all the journalists in the world.

There has been overwhelming evidence and you keep denying and lying.

This is like narcissistic abuse.

Why are you not honest?

Why don’t you say Brussels left us alone?

We waited for six years. Nobody did anything.

We need to relocate.

They don’t do it.

Now, I have my say and yes I do cruel, barbarian pushbacks.

Why did you stop knocking on Brussels’ door for relocation?

For you Mr. Rutte, what according to you are the sanctions that should be imposed on Greece and maybe on Holland for accepting this violation of human rights that Holland is co-responsible of also?

Many, many municipalities in Holland want to take many refugees from Greece, like many minor unaccompanied children.

They are many to accept them, but this prime minister opposes to that, so maybe you could find an understanding and the Dutch municipality who are so ready to unburden Greece can actually take in refugees from Greece, which his [the Greek PM’s] government opposes.

the answers

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, greek PM

I understand that in the Netherlands you have a culture of asking direct questions to politicians, which I very much respect.

What I will not accept is that, in this office, you will insult me, or the Greek people, with accusations and expressions that are not supported by material facts when this country has been dealing with a migration crisis of unprecedented intensity, has been saving hundreds, if not thousands of people at sea.

We just rescued 250 people in danger of drowning south of Crete, we are doing this every single day rescuing people at sea, while, at the same time, we are intercepting boats that come from Turkey, as we have the right to do in accordance with European regulations and waiting for the Turkish Coast Guard to come and pick them up and return them to Turkey.

So, rather than putting the blame on Greece, you should put the blame on those who have been instrumentalizing migration systematically pushing people in(to a) desperate situation from a safe country, because I need to remind you that people who are in Turkey are not in danger, their life is not in danger and you should put the blame on others and not us.

We have a tough, but fair, policy on migration, we have processed and given the right to protection in Greece to 50,000 people, including tens of thousands of Afghans, in accordance…

Allow me. Have you visited the new camps on our islands? Have you been to Samos? … No listen to me, you have not been to Samos… No you have not been...

Please…Look, you will not come into this building and insult me.

Am I very clear on this?

I am answering now and you will not interrupt me, in the same way that I listened to you very carefully.

If you go to Samos, you will find an impeccable camp, with impeccable conditions, funded by EU money, with clean facilities, with playgrounds for…the children to play, no comparison to what we had in the past.

This is our policy, we will stand by it, and I will not accept anyone pointing the finger to [sic] this government and accusing it of inhumane behavior.

Mark Rutte, dutch PM
I am absolutely convinced that this prime minister and this government is applying the highest standards and the fact that they have immediately launched an investigation on the issue of the pushbacks is testimony of that.

I will now bo back on the situation of 2015 and 2016 when we had many people dying on the Aegean Sea trying to get from Turkey into Greece and then to Germany, Sweeden, the Netherlands etc. And I am happy that Germany and we -were holding at that time the rotating presidency of the EU- were able to negotiate the EU and Turkey aggreement.

By which indeed Turkey is a safe country for people to stay.

And Turkey at this moment is hosting over 3 million Syrian refugees in the South of Turkey in camps but also in the local communities.

What this country is trying to do is to defend the outer borders of the European Union.

It is a lot of tasks that countries have who are lying on the outside like Italy, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, but also Poland and Greece, and there is an extremely difficult situation.

What I don’t want again is for people to take boats that are not fully equipped to pass the Mediterranean or to pass the Aegean Sea, to die in those circumstances.

I want them to stay there [in Turkey], to be safe, and then we are willing as European Union to take a fair share of people from Africa, from Turkey – refugees, in line with the plans devised in 2015 [the EU-Turkey Statement on refugees-migrants] and 2016.

So this is my answer and I wish that your question has been answered

About

This text is a transcribed excerpt from the Press Conference that followed the meeting between the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on November the 9th, 2021 in Athens. During the Q&A, the Dutch reporter Ingeborg Beugel asked Mitsotakis for clarity and honesty referring to pushbacks which Greek border guards keep committing towards refugees, while the Greek Government systematically conceals such violence. She continued by asking Mark Rutte what the political stance of the Netherlands towards refugees' relocation and Mitsotakis's policy would be.

The choice of this text as our source material has different reasons. First of all, we were interested in how language can produce categories and shape identities: how does wording create precise borders between the "us" and the "them"? Our second step would be reflecting on text processing strategies through which a speech or a narration can be recontextualised and reclaimed. By replacing or taking out words of a discourse, and thus making some parts of it interchangeable, we tried to highlight how its phrasing is never neutral, but always a choice led by a particular purpose.

We decided to work on this text as the Press Conference took place at the moment we were developing our research, and as we were really interested on the distinctive rhetoric strategies that Beugel, Mitsotakis and Rutte choose for voicing their goals. It is clear that the reporter uses an emotional and provocative tone to address Mitsotakis' politics, which challenges his composure to a point where he can not keep it anymore, while when talking to Rutte, her speech is more calm and detached. In response to her question, both Prime Ministers refuse responsibility of their actions: they use a rather managerial and pre-designed language to neutralize the reporter's provocation while at the same time praising the generosity and the efforts of their countries. In particular, Mitsotakis denies any of Beugel's accusations and declares them as unsupported assumptions which is a mere demonstration of power. Alongside, Rutte uses a colder and more restrained language to rationalize the EU and the Greek Government's choices: While shifting the responsibilities for refugee protection, he actually justifies the crimes that are committed within the EU borders as an inevitable "tough, but fair, policy".

Concerning our project, it is an act of persistent resistance. We created three functions to facilitate an iterative process of refusal towards the two Prime Ministers' answers and any of their possible versions. We invite you to play as much as you want with these functions and create your own answers as counter-reaction to Mark Rutte's final sentence: "So this is my answer and I wish that your question has been answered". Every new answer, every new iteration, can be submitted to our Archive of Repetitive Answers. Although they will never be good enough, nor shall they be accepted as exhaustive, we consider the modified answers as a trigger for a never-ending dialogue.

Research

Articles about pushbacks in the EU borders, that influenced the editing of the functions.

• https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/frontex-chapter-ii-complicit-in-pushbacks/
• https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/eu-border-agency-frontex-complicit-in-greek-refugee-pushback-campaign-a-4b6cba29-35a3-4d8c-a49f-a12daad450d7
• https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/10/23/frontex-at-fault-european-border-force-complicit-in-illegal-pushbacks
• https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/torment-in-turkey/
• https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/unmasking-europes-shadow-armies/
• https://www.lighthousereports.nl/investigation/frontex-in-the-central-mediterranean/
• https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2021/11/17/beugel-greece-safety-leave-dutch-journalist/

The pad that we analysed the coropora, and therefore formed our strategies

https://pad.xpub.nl/p/mitsotakis_mitsa?fbclid=IwAR3WcyBVOBwpeMPYVLpxyKnwO67M3C5PgzFoKBFlD3B3EF8rD2DdaxQGYH0

Functions

Respell

   Respell receives as input a text as a string type, and substitute all the occurrences of a targeted word with a replacement as a string type chosen by the user.

   from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
   # text, target, and replacement are string types
   def respell(text, target, replacement):
       target = target.lower()
       txt = word_tokenize(text)
       new = []
       for w in txt:
           if w == target:
               w = replacement
               new = new + [w]
           elif w == target[0:1].upper() + target[1:]:
               w = replacement[0:1].upper() + replacement[1:] 
              new = new + [w]
           elif w == target.upper():
               w = replacement.upper()
               new = new + [w]
           else:
               new = new + [w]
       text = ' '.join(new)
       final= text.replace(' .','.').replace(' ,',',').replace(' :',':').replace(' ;',';').replace('< ','<').replace(' >','>').replace(' / ','/').replace('& ','&')
       return final

   This function in itself could be understood as a filter to process and alter texts. By targeting specific words and replacing them, either for another word, for specific characters or for blank spaces, the user of the tool can intervene inside a text. One could break down the meaning of a text or create new narrative meanings by exposing its structure, taking out or highlighting specific and meaningful words and detaching such text from its original context. This tool offers a broad spectrum of possibilities in which it can be used, from a very political and subversive use, to a more playful and poetic one.

Stitch

   Stitch receives as input a text as a string type, and replaces all the occurrences of a target word, with a character or a word that is repeated as many times as the length of the target.

   from nltk.tokenize import word_tokenize
   # text, target, and replacement are string types
   def stich(text, target, replacement):
       target = target.lower()
       txt = word_tokenize(text)
       new = []
       for w in txt:
           if w == target:
               w = len(w)*replacement
               new = new + [w]
           elif w == target[0].upper() + target[1:]:
               w = len(w)*replacement
               new = new + [w]
           elif w== target.upper():
               w = len(w)*replacement 
               new = new + [w]
           else:
               new = new + [w]
       text = ' '.join(new)
       final= text.replace(' .','.').replace(' ,',',').replace(' :',':').replace(' ;',';').replace('< ','<').replace(' >','>').replace(' / ','/').replace('& ','&')
       return final

   This function in itself could be understood as a filter to process and alter texts. By targeting specific words and stitching them, with a character or a word that is repeated as many times as the length of the target , the user of the tool can intervene inside a text. One could break down the meaning of a text or create new narrative meanings by exposing its structure, taking out or highlighting specific and meaningful words and detaching such text from its original context. This tool offers a broad spectrum of possibilities in which it can be used, from a very political and subversive use, to a more playful and poetic one.

Reveal

    Reveal takes a text as string input and deletes all its characters except the input list of words.

   def reveal(text,group):
       txt = word_tokenize(text)
       txt_linebr = []
       for token in txt:
           if token == '<':
               continue
           elif token == 'br/':
               token=
               txt_linebr.append(token)
           elif token == '>':
               continue
           else:
               txt_linebr.append(token)   
       new = []
       for w in txt_linebr:
           if w==:
               new = new + [w]
           elif w not in group:
               w = len(w) * ' '
               new = new + [w]
           elif w in group :
               new = new + [w]
       text = ' '.join(new)
       final= text.replace(' .','.').replace(' ,',',').replace(' :',':').replace(' ;',';').replace('< ','<').replace(' >','>').replace(' / ','/').replace('& ','&')
       return final

   This function in itself could be understood as a filter to process and alter texts. By chosing to keeping specific words of a text and deleting all the others, the user of the tool can intervene inside a text. One could break down the meaning of a text or create new narrative meanings by exposing its structure, taking out or highlighting specific and meaningful words and detaching such text from its original context. This tool offers a broad spectrum of possibilities in which it can be used, from a very political and subversive use, to a more playful and poetic one.

Several tries

#1 Exchange several words that misguide with words that are more close to reality

Kyriakos Mitsotakis 

I understand that in the Netherlands women have a culture of asking direct questions to politicians, which I very much detest. 
What I will not accept is that, in this office, women will insult me, or the Greek people, with accusations and expressions that are not supported by material facts when this country has been worsening with a curtailment to the freedom of movement crisis of unprecedented intensity, has been deporting hundreds, if not thousands of people at sea. 
We just abandoned 250 people in             of drowning south of Crete, we are doing this every single day detaining, beating and forcefully expelling people at sea, while, at the same time, we are intercepting boats that come from Turkey, as we have the right to do in accordance with European political agenda and waiting for the Turkish Coast Guard to come and pick them up and concetrate them to Turkey. 
So, rather than putting the blame on Greece, women should put the blame on those who have been instrumentalizing curtailment to the freedom of movement systematically pushing back people in to a desperate situation from a buffer zone country, because I need to remind women that people who are in Turkey are not in            , their life is not in             and women should put the blame on others and not us. 
We have a tough, and unfair, policy on curtailment to the freedom of movement, we have processed and given the right to detention in Greece to 50,000 people, including tens of thousands of Afghans, in accordance… 
Allow me. Have women visited the new closed, controlled and isolated camps on our islands ? Have women been to Samos ? … No listen to me, women have not been to Samos… No women have not been... 
Please…Look, women will not come into this building and insult me. 
Am I very clear on this ? 
I am answering now and women will not interrupt me, in the same way that I listened to women very carefully. 
If women go to Samos, women will find an impeccable camp with night curfew from 8AM to 8PM, regular malfunctioning of the surveillance system that regulates the entrance and exit, disproportionate price of bus tickets to reach Vathy town ( round trip 3,20€ which represents a large share of the average 70€ of cash assistance people are allowed every month ), with impeccable confinement conditions, funded by EU money, with clean facilities, with playgrounds for…the children to play, no comparison to what we caused in the past. 
This is our policy, we will stand by it, and I will not accept anyone pointing the finger to this government and accusing it of inhumane behavior. 

Mark Rutte 

I am absolutely convinced that this prime minister and this government is applying the highest repression standards and the fact that they have immediately concealed an investigation on the issue of the pushbacks is testimony of that. 
I will now go back on the situation of 2015 and 2016 when we caused many people dying on the Aegean Sea trying to get from Turkey into Greece and then to Germany, Sweeden, the Netherlands etc. And I am happy that Germany and we -were holding at that time the rotating presidency of the EU- were able to negotiate the EU and Turkey agreement on curtailment to the freedom of movement of refugees. 
By which indeed Turkey is a buffer zone country for people to stay. 
And Turkey at this moment is hosting over 3 million Syrian refugees in the South of Turkey in closed, controlled and isolated camps and also in the local communities. 
What this country is trying to do is to build a wall in the outer borders of the European Union. 
It is a lot of Police Stations, Detention Centres, Border Guard Posts, Fences, Anti-tank Modes, Minefields, Watchtowers that countries have who are lying on the outside like Italy, Spain, Hungary, Slovenia, and also Poland and Greece, and there is an extremely difficult situation. 
What I don’t want again is for people to take boats that are not fully equipped to pass the Mediterranean or to pass the Aegean Sea, to die in those circumstances. 
I want them to stay there [ in Turkey ], to be buffer zone, and then we are willing as European Union to take a unfair share of people from Africa, from Turkey – refugees, in line with the plans devised in 2015 and 2016. 
So this is my answer and I wish that your question has been answered

#2 "we are intercepting boats that come from Turkey as we have the right to do in accordance with European regulations""What this country is trying to do is to defend the outer borders of the European Union" "It is a lot of tasks that countries have who are lying on the outside"

What                   is that   in this                                  the                with                             that are                                      this country                  with a                  of                                                                       of                 

                           in        of                of         we are       this                                                      the             we are intercepting boats that come from Turkey   as we have the right to do in accordance with European regulations                 the                     to come                                  to Turkey   

                         the       on                         the       on       who have                                                                in                     from a      country                  to            that        who are in Turkey are     in                     is     in                           the       on                     

   have a                           on             we have                     the right to            in        to                                of           of           in             

                            the           on                             to                     to          have          to               have              

                           come      this                          

                on this   

                                                   in the          that            to                      

          to                                            with                                              with                    with                              to                      to      we     in the        

     is              we                                                          the        to this                            of                     





           
                          that this                    this            is          the                       the      that      have                                       on the       of the           is           of that   

                   on the           of                    we                       on the            trying to     from Turkey                      to                     the                                  that             we                  that      the                     of the               to           the        Turkey             

                Turkey is a      country            to        

    Turkey    this        is                                        in the       of Turkey in                in the                     

What this country is trying to do is to defend the outer borders of the European Union   

It is a lot of tasks that countries have who are lying on the outside                                                                                  is                                    

What                      is            to      boats that are                    to      the                  to      the              to     in                       

            to              in Turkey     to                    we are         as European Union to      a            of        from          from Turkey              in      with the               in                 

   this is                      that

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