Turkish special forces prevent migrants already in Greece from returning

[rangerrebew]

Turkish special forces prevent migrants already in Greece from returning
Posted on 6. Mar 2020   

While the European Union demanded that Turkey stop using “migratory pressure for political ends”, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made a decision which does not seem to go in the direction of appeasement, reported French weekly L’Express.

On Thursday, March 5, Ankara announced the deployment of a thousand police officers along a border river with Greece.

“This morning we sent along the Meriç river 1 000 members of the special police force, fully equipped, to prevent them [the Greeks] from repelling” the migrants who are trying to reach Europe, said the Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.

https://medforth.blog/2020/03/06/turkish-special-forces-prevent-migrants-already-in-greece-from-returning/

[skeeter]

According to this article Turkey is not only preventing the migrants from returning, they are preventing Greece from stopping them entering.