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Saturday, February 29, 2020

Greece blocks thousands of migrants during ‘onslaught’ at border with Turkey

Greek police fired tear gas to push back migrants gathered on its border with Turkey on Saturday, as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Union’s doorstep.Greece, which has tense relations with its neighbour Turkey at the best of times and was a primary gateway for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016, described the situation an “onslaught” and said it would keep migrants out.“Greece yesterday faced an organised, mass and illegal attempt to violate its borders and…


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