Greece accuses Turkey of forcing just about 100 ‘naked and bruised’ migrants across river together border

Ninety-two migrants were being observed virtually bare and bruised after allegedly remaining compelled throughout the Evros river from Turkey into Greece, Athens said Sunday, a demand fiercely denied by Ankara.

EU border company Frontex verified the arrival of the group in instances which the Greek ministry for civil defense stated sent out an ‘inhuman image.’

‘The Frontex officers noted that the migrants had been located pretty much bare and some of them with obvious injuries,’ explained Paulina Bakula, spokeswoman for the organisation.

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said in a tweet that it was ‘deeply distressed by the stunning experiences and photos of 92 folks, who were being documented to have been uncovered at the Greek-Turkish land border, stripped of their clothes’.

Bakula, speaking from Frontex’s Warsaw HQ, said Frontex officers labored with Greek authorities to supply the migrants – primarily Afghans and Syrians – with quick help.

She included the organisation had knowledgeable the agency’s elementary rights officer of a prospective rights violation.

In the meantime, Greek minister for civil security Takis Theodorikakos accused Turkey of ‘instrumentalising illegal immigration’ in the most current of a sequence of recriminations on migration in between the neighbours.

‘The Frontex officers reported that the migrants had been located practically naked and some of them with visible accidents,’ mentioned a border agency spokeswoman

The flows of persons arriving from Turkey are growing every single working day as the refugee and migrant disaster is continue to ongoing (migrants pictured in Greece in Oct 2022)

Talking on Skai tv, Theodorikakos reported lots of of the migrants advised Frontex that ‘three Turkish army automobiles had transferred them’ to the river which functions as a normal border.

In a collection of scathing remarks on Twitter, the Turkish presidency denied any responsibility for the migrants and blamed Greece for the ‘inhuman’ problem.

‘We urge Greece to abandon its severe treatment method of refugees as shortly as possible, to stop its baseless and bogus expenses against Turkey,’ wrote President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s major press aide Fahrettin Altun.

‘With these futile and ridiculous initiatives, Greece has demonstrated at the time once more to the total entire world that it does not regard the dignity of refugees by putting up these oppressed people’s pictures it has deported just after extorting their personalized belongings,’ he added in tweets delivered in Turkish, Greek and English.

Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli called on Greece to halt what in a tweet he termed its ‘manipulations and dishonesty.’

Greek minister for migration and asylum, Notis Mitarachi, had Saturday explained the incident as a ‘shame on civilisation.’

In a collection of scathing opinions on Twitter, the Turkish presidency denied any accountability for the migrants and blamed Greece for the ‘inhuman’ circumstance (Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pictured)

Athens on a regular basis faces and denies accusations from NGOs and the media that it has on lots of occasions sought to drive migrants back again to Turkey illegally, in some cases working with pressure.

Previous thirty day period, Erdogan employed a UN handle to accuse Greece of reworking the Aegean Sea into a ‘cemetery’ with ‘oppressive policies’ on immigration.

Berlin-dependent rights team Mare Liberum tweeted: ‘In the Evros area, systematic human legal rights crimes towards men and women on the shift are committed on a every day foundation by Turkey as perfectly as Greece’.

‘When these crimes are publicly talked over by users of the federal government, it only serves to insert gas to the fire of the extended conflict in between Turkey and Greece, not to guard men and women on the transfer,’ the team added.