Anonymous ID: 26f26c Feb. 29, 2020, 6:07 a.m. No.8282593   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-greece-idUSKCN20M15V

 

Greece tightens border with Turkey as migrants approach

 

Greece tightened border controls on Friday, sending security forces to hold back migrants heading for the country by land and sea after Turkey warned that it would no longer prevent refugees from leaving.

Anonymous ID: 26f26c Feb. 29, 2020, 6:07 a.m. No.8282595   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2598

>>8282586

>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/29/erdogan-says-border-will-stay-open-as-greece-tries-to-repel-influx

 

ErdoÄźan says border will stay open as Greece tries to repel influx

 

Thousands of migrants may be in no man’s land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara opened its western borders, sparking chaotic scenes as Greek troops attempted to prevent refugees from entering Europe en masse.

 

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed 18,000 migrants had crossed the border, without immediately providing supporting evidence, but many appear to have been repelled by Greek border patrols firing teargas and stun grenades.

 

ErdoÄźan has long threatened to allow refugees and migrants transit into the EU, with which Turkey signed an accord in 2016 to stem westward migration in return for financial aid.

 

He stressed the frontier would remain open. “We will not close these doors in the coming period and this will continue,” he said in Istanbul on Saturday. “Why? The European Union needs to keep its promises. We don’t have to take care of this many refugees, to feed them.”