Hundreds of migrants in Turkey started arriving on the borders with Greece and Bulgaria on Friday after a senior Turkish official said Ankara would no longer abide by a 2016 EU deal.
Greece, Bulgaria beef up border security to stop migrants.Afghan refugees walk towards Turkey-Greece border at Ipsala district in Edirne Province in northwestern Turkey, on February 28 , 2020. - Turkey will no longer close its border gates to refugees who want to go to Europe , a senior official told AFP on February 28, shortly after the killing of 33 Turkish soldiers in an airstrike in northern Syria.
On the Aegean coast, Turkish broadcasters showed two dozen people, including women and children, aboard a rubber dinghy boat. They were reportedly bound for the Greek island of Lesbos. Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, Pakistanis and Moroccans were among the migrants heading towards the border crossings with Greece and Bulgaria, about 200 km west of Istanbul, Turkey's pro-government Demiroren news agency said.
Turkey already hosts some 3.7 million Syrian refugees and says it cannot handle any more. The EU said on Friday it had received no official word from Ankara that it had suspended the 2016 deal, whereby Brussels sends billions of euros in aid in return for Turkey stemming the migrant flow to Europe.
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