The situation in Evros is tragic. Every day, dozens of illegal migrants make their way to the territory of Greece, as if on an excursion, mocking the “law enforcement agencies”, Greece itself. Illegals slowly crossing the river and then heading first to Thessaloniki, and from there to Attica (mostly) for a permanent settlement. Έβρος – […]
The Minister for the Protection of Citizens, Takis Theodorikakos, said that 1,500 illegal immigrants tried to cross the Greek border (in the area of the Evros River) within 24 hours. In a morning interview with SKAI, Mr. Theodorikakos referred to the latest Turkish provocations, accusing the neighboring country of engaging in “unacceptable actions” in addition […]
The Evros fence will be extended by about 80 kilometers, Minister of Immigration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis said. In a conversation with journalists from radio station SKAI, Mr. Mitarakis noted that the “island” (a section of the bottom of the Evros River that appears during a drought) is not a territory of Greece, according to […]
Greece accused Turkey of pushing out migrants to the territory of Greece. The charges were brought by Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis, who visited the Evros River area the day after police evacuated 38 migrants stranded on an island on the natural border between the two countries. On Wednesday afternoon, the Ministry of Foreign […]
The former Chief of the General Staff of Greece, Georgios Campas, is sure that in the case of illegal migrants in Evros, the country is faced with a hybrid threat from Turkey. He emphasizes: “They tried to create a provocation to expose us that we are behaving incorrectly towards migrants, which is a lie.” The […]
On Tuesday, two Greek NGOs filed a complaint with the Greek Supreme Court calling for the rescue of 50 Syrian migrants, including three pregnant women and 12 children, from an islet in the Evros River on Greece’s border with Turkey. The Greek Council for Refugees and Human Rights HumanRights 360 said that among the 50 […]
On the Greek-Turkish border, the number of attempts to break through by smugglers carrying illegal immigrants has sharply increased. Greece has serious concerns that, in the face of escalating tensions, Ankara will attempt to repeat the situation in the spring of 2020. For this reason, there is a strengthening of Greek forces in the region, […]
Five traffickers have been arrested in the past two days, and at least 20 migrants have been prevented from entering the country in the Evros region on the Greek-Turkish border, the police departments of Alexandroupoli and Orestiada in northern Greece said on Wednesday. The arrests were carried out on two separate occasions: the first three […]
Dozens of illegal immigrants have been detained on a nameless island belonging to Greece, on the Evros River – they are asking the Greek authorities to grant them asylum. 54 illegal immigrants made their way to the island unnoticed by the Greek authorities and posted on the Internet photos of their children, where they ask […]
On Saturday evening, a group of illegal migrants tried to get into Greece by boat across the Evros River. A fatal shot from the Turkish side ended the life of a woman on board. The Greek television channel Sky reported on the tragic incident yesterday, giving details. The shootout took place after 9 o’clock on […]
From a very close distance, from a small-caliber gun, presumably by Turkish gendarmes in the Evros region, a woman was shot dead, trying to get to the Greek coast, across the river. According to the relevant report of the Ministry of Civil Protection of Greece, “Yesterday Saturday, April 16, 2022, at 20:50 in the Evros […]
The Greek Migration Minister has denied Turkey’s claims that 12 migrants were frozen to death on the land border between the two countries after they were driven back to Turkey by Greek border guards. Children are also reported to have been among the dead. Earlier Wednesday, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted that 12 migrants […]