Turkey vows to escalate push to send hundreds of thousands of migrants to EU, used live fire on Greek troops

As the global coronavirus spreads and with a death toll of over 20,000 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ratcheting up tensions with Greece with a military escalation.

Having long downplayed the danger of the coronavirus, Erdogan has declared the coronavirus pandemic will have been resolved in two or three weeks in his country, Ankara has not let up on its intensive efforts to push tens of thousands of refugees and migrants and to challenge Greek sovereignty on several fronts.

Straight on the heels of the Turkish Air Force's unprecedented move to send on Greek Independence day warplanes to conduct flights over the Greek mainland city of Kavala - 235 miles inland from the Greek-Turkish border at Evros - the Turkish government is now declaring that at the height of the push to get migrants across the border, which is viewed by Athens as bid to destabilise Greece, the 1,000 special forces that Ankara has for weeks stationed at the border for hours one day used live fire and lobbed gas bombs onto Greek territory.

Turkish forces amidst the pandemic crisis have withdrawn most of the thousands of migrants that it transported to the border and refused to allow their return to where they came from, mainly Istanbul.

Soylu, however, has vowed that the push to send thousands of migrants to Greece will resume.

The admission of this war-like act was made today by Suleyman Soylu, the deputy chairman of Erdogan's AK Party  claimed today that 150,000 migrants have crossed the Greek border which Greek authorities categorically denied as the Greek border is guarded by over 1,000 police special forces and army troops.

Greece has charged that Ankara is disseminating a barrage of disinformation from the abuse and torture of migrants to the...