Greek police fire tear gas at migrants on border, injuring several people, TRT World’s Semir Sejfovic documents
"The approach of not intervening against migrants wishing to leave Turkey remains in practice but this approach covers sea crossings because of the dangers," Turkish coastguard tweeted.
The coastguard said 97 migrants were rescued on Thursday after "the Greek side flattened three boats and left them in a half-sinking state in the middle of the sea." A statement from Erdogan's office said he would travel to Brussels on March 9. The statement did not specify where he would be during his one-day visit or the nature of the work taking him to the Belgian capital, but the European Union's headquarters are in Brussels.
The Greek police also used water cannons to stop the migrants, a correspondent said, many of whom have been stranded for days at the Pazarkule border, known as Kastanies on the Greek side. European leaders promised Turkey a total of six billion euros, paid in two instalments of three billion euros each. Turkey has only confirmed receipt of the first payment.
Greek authorities said they thwarted more than 38,000 attempted border crossings in the past week and arrested 268 people — only 4 percent of them Syrians. They reported 27 more arrests on Saturday, mostly of migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan. Soylu claimed that some 1,000 Turkish special operations police deployed on the border had started to thwart the actions of the law enforcement teams assembled by Greece to drive the migrants back.
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