Turkey pushing COVID-infected migrants to cross into Greece, officials believe

Greek authorities have found out that numerous migrants in Turkey have been concentrating in the country's western seaside towns, as if ready to cross into neighboring Greece's islands in the Aegean Sea.

More worrying, sources that cannot be named but are considered reliable believe that Turkey has a plan to push migrants infected with the coronavirus to cross into Greece and other parts of Europe in the midst of the virus pandemic. According to the sources, these migrants, many of whom were also at the Pazarkule, or Kastanies, border crossing, have been transported from migrant camps in the hinterland.

Migrants' movement towards the Turkish shore is being facilitated and regulated by the Turkish police and gendarmerie.

The same Greek sources are calling Turkish flights over the islands of Lesvos and Chios and the land border in Thrace, a diversionary tactic.<...

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