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Bulgaria boosts border controls after Turkey migrant move |
2020-02-29 |
[AlAhram] Bulgaria joined Greece on Friday in boosting border controls after ![]() said it would no longer prevent refugees from going to Europe ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... . "We sent police forces to our borders (with Turkey) early in the morning. It is worrying that the "There is a real danger at the moment of the events that happen there: people are fleeing bombardments." A Greece also said Friday it was tightening the guarding of its borders to "the maximum level possible". Greece is already struggling to accommodate thousands of asylum-seekers stranded in the country for the past five years. EU countries fear another influx of refugees from Syria after more than one million made their way there in 2015 before an EU-Turkey accord was reached on controlling the numbers. A barbed wire fence stretches along most of Bulgaria's 259-kilometre (160-mile) border with Turkey so that |
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#1 NOthing new: Bulgaria prevents Syrians from entering Published: 4.29.14, Israel News Human Rights Watch says Bulgaria has been summarily pushing back Syrians, Afghans and others as they cross the border from Turkey. The New York-based group says Tuesday that people have been improperly forced back with no opportunity to lodge asylum claims. (AP) |
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