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Another heart-wrenching push-back story. #Greece #Evros #AsylumSeekers
A Turkish journo says they were beaten and pushed back by masked men at Turkish-Greek border on Friday evening.
A Turkish journo says they were beaten and pushed back by masked men at Turkish-Greek border on Friday evening.
Reporting from Greek-Turkish border: There are several more push-back reports in the region. Several groups of Turkish asylum seekers were reportedly beaten by masked men and pushed back to Turkey where they have been arrested.
8 people including Gul family reached Thourio, a Greek border town on April 28 at 5.30 am, according to witnesses. While sitting at a coffee house, they were detained by Greek police at around 9.40 a.m. They were taken to a police station and the group wanted to apply for asylum.
After kept in custody for hours, 55 people including Afghan, Pakistan, Syrian and Turkish nationals were put in a lorry by masked and armed men. The lorry stopped at Evros river and pushed all the asylum seekers back to Turkey.
Halil Gul and Seher Gul were arrested by Turkish security officers after they were pushed back by a group of masked men who reportedly cooperate with border police. Turkish authorities called relatives to pick two kids of Gul family up from the police station.
Latest update: A total number of 32 Turkish political asylum seekers were pushed back to Turkey through Evros in the last four days after they arrived in Greece. 17 of them were arrested in Turkey, 11 of them managed to cross the border again and are being kept in custody.
Here is the second push-back report: ipa.news/2019/04/29/ano…
I have received some terrifying photos from a group of Turkish national asylum seekers who claim they were pushed back to Turkey at Feres in northwestern Greece near Evros after beaten by Greek policemen on April 28. 
Six more Turkish asylum seekers including two children were violently sent back over Evros near Cheimonio yesterday evening. G.M, E.M, N. Ş. G. Ş. were subsequently detained by Turkish security forces at Doyran. @RebHarms
@SofiaElpidaKart #Greece
@SofiaElpidaKart #Greece
