Greece has stepped up border controls on its land and sea border with Turkey, fearing a new wave of people from earthquakes ravaging southeast Turkey and northern Syria.
Hundreds of additional border guards began patrolling the Greece-Turkey land border in the Evros region this weekend. Guard
“Mass displacement of millions of people is not a solution,” Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said, emphasizing that urgent aid should be sent to Turkey and Syria “before that happens”.
Some of the people left homeless in the February 6 earthquakes, a natural disaster that killed more than 50,000 people, are expected to leave for Europe in the spring unless all the humanitarian aid they need is provided.
Previous issue of Hürriyet reportedThe number of people who lost their lives in the earthquake that occurred in Turkey reached 44,374. Search and rescue efforts in nearly 21 thousand buildings were completed.
287 tent camps were set up for the survivors of the aftershocks. More than 500 thousand people were rescued from the rubble.
The European Seismological Center also reported that residents of Lebanon, Syria, Cyprus and Israel felt a new earthquake in Antakya, Turkey.