Turkish regime deploys 1,000 special forces to Greek border to stop migrants from goi
Turkish regime deploys 1,000 special forces to Greek border to stop migrants from going back to Turkey
By Arthur Lyons 5 March 2020
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The Turkish regime says that it will be deploying 1,000 police to its border with Greece to stop migrants from turning around and heading back towards Turkey.
Turkey’s Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced Thursday that the Erodgan regime is deploying 1,0000 special police forces to stop thousands upon thousands of migrants from making their way back to Turkish territory, Reuters reports.
In a brazen attempt to take the moral high ground in a dangerous situation that Turkey itself initiated, the interior minister claimed that 164 migrants have been wounded by Greek authorities – something that the Greek authorities would surely contest.
“They wounded 164 people. They tried to push 4,900 people back to Turkey,” Soylu said. “We are deploying 1,000 special force police to the border system… to prevent the push-back.”
As Voice of Europe reported on earlier, a video surfaced on Wednesday morning which appears to show Turkish police firing tear gas toward the Greek side of the border near the Evros river, not far from the village of Kastanies. Other videos have circulated on social media which seem to depict Turkish police and military forcing migrants to head to the Greek border.
Days ago, Greece’s Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis announced that the migrants who’ve gathered at the Greek-Turkish border – most of whom are fighting-age men – made around 9,600 attempts to illegally enter Greece. All attempts were thwarted by Greek Security forces.
The ongoing crisis at the Greek-Turkish border was initiated by the Turkish regime one week ago when it made good on its promise to “open the gates” and “flood” Europe with the 3.6 million migrants that it had been housing up until this point.
Turkish regime leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been threatening to do so since last fall.
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