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The Evros river runs along the land border between Greece and Turkey (Photo: Nikolaj Nielsen)

Greek operation on Turkish border to keep out migrants

A 25-page Greek government letter describes how its border operations along Turkey are designed to keep people from entering the country to claim asylum.

The admission is part of a wider response to complaints by the anti-torture committee (CPT), a body inside the Strasbourg-based human-rights watchdog Council of Europe.

In it, the Greek ministry of foreign affairs says operations ...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

The Evros river runs along the land border between Greece and Turkey (Photo: Nikolaj Nielsen)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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