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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 The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...Qatar's satrapy in Asia Minor...
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...
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"We sent police forces to our borders (with Turkey) early in the morning. It is worrying that the Ottoman Turkish border guards have withdrawn," Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told journalists.

"There is a real danger at the moment of the events that happen there: people are fleeing bombardments."

A Ottoman Turkish bigwig told AFP on Friday that Turkey -- home to almost four million Syrian refugees -- would no longer close its border gates to those who want to go to Europe.

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 migrants colonists and asylum seekers travelling on foot have largely passed around the country on their way north in recent years.
Posted by:trailing wife

#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)
Posted by: b   2020-02-29 08:36  

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