Thousands of migrants gathered at Turkey's border with Greece, after the Turkish government said the path to Europe was open. But as migrants have arrived, they've found it blocked by barbed wire and riot police.
Migrants gather at Maritsa river in Edirne, Turkey, Monday at the Turkish-Greek border as Greek soldiers are seen on the Greek side. Thousands of migrants and refugees massed at Turkey's western frontier, trying to enter Greece by land and sea after Turkey said its borders were open to those hoping to head to Europe.Migrants gather at Maritsa river in Edirne, Turkey, Monday at the Turkish-Greek border as Greek soldiers are seen on the Greek side.
Mitsotakis's conservative government sent troops to police the border and said it will refuse to accept new asylum applications for a month, invoking an emergency clause in European treaties allowing it to do so. It also vowed to deport anyone who crossed by land or sea in contravention of European and international law.
The funding for that deal expired last year, but the EU has not followed up with a new plan, says Gerald Knaus, the architect of that 2016 deal and an Austrian social scientist who heads the European Stability Initiative in Berlin. Meanwhile, in Athens, Mitsotakis held an emergency national security meeting on Sunday to manage what government spokesman Stelios Petsas calls"an organized mass attempt to violate Greece's land and sea borders." Petsas also accused Turkey of facilitating people-smuggling.Migrants try to cut the fence at the Turkish-Greek border near the Pazarkule border gate in Edirne, Turkey, on Monday.
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