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Syrian Refugees in Turkey Ready to Cross Border Into Greece - Video

© AP Photo / Emrah GurelTurkish security vehicles stationed at the Turkey-Greece border gate near Pazarkule, Edirne, Turkey, 12 November 2019
Turkish security vehicles stationed at the Turkey-Greece border gate near Pazarkule, Edirne, Turkey, 12 November 2019 - Sputnik International
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Migrants continue to arrive to the Greek islands, although authorities remain reluctant to relocate them to the mainland, despite promises to do so.

Live from the Turkish city of Edirne west of Istanbul on the border between Turkey and Greece, as refugees travel towards Greece amid a reported change in Turkish border control policy.

On Friday, Omer Celik, a spokesman for Turkey's ruling AKP party, said that Ankara was no longer able to contain the flow of refugees from Syria toward the country’s borders with Greece and Bulgaria.

By doing so, Turkey renounces its agreement with the EU, which suggested the closure of the Syrian-Turkish border in exchange for billions of dollars in aid for refugees staying in Turkey. However, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly accused the EU of not doing enough and is apparently now seeking to draw European and other Western powers into the standoff over Idlib.

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