KASTANIES, GREECE (REUTERS) - Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stone-throwing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday (Feb 29), as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Union's doorstep.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KASTANIES, GREECE - Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stone-throwing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday , as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Union's doorstep.
Turkey said on Thursday it would stop keeping hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory after an air strike on Idlib in neighbouring Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers. "Greece... faced an organised, mass and illegal attempt to violate its borders and it withstood this attempt," government spokesman Stelios Petsas said.
The EU statement expressed condolences with Turkey over the deadly Idlib strike and said the bloc was ready to step up humanitarian support. 'TITANIC EFFORT' Erdogan said on Saturday some 18,000 migrants had already crossed from Turkey into Europe. Speaking in Istanbul, he did not provide evidence for the number but said it would rise.A Reuters witness said there were about 500 people between the Greek and Turkish border posts, and beyond that on the Turkish side, at the Pazarkule border gate, hundreds more.
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