Bulgaria sends more soldiers to border with Turkey

Bulgaria has started deploying more soldiers on its border with Turkey due to "the complicated situation" related to the migrant crisis.

Izvor: Tanjug

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Bulgaria sends more soldiers to border with Turkey

Bulgaria is "sending more soldiers to strengthen controls along its border with Turkey and avoid a refugee influx that has overwhelmed its neighbours," Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.

"There is a change in the situation in the past few days and it is hard to predict where the refugee wave will head...so we are standing ready," Nenchev told public BNR radio.

Reuters quoted him as saying that 50 soldiers have been sent to the border and a further 160 could be deployed by the end of Thursday.

"Bulgaria took the measures after reports that hundreds of mostly Syrian refugees have spent the night in the open near the Turkish border with Greece, which is also very close to Bulgarian-Turkish border," the agency said.

Bulgarian Interior Ministry official Georgi Kostov said that "about 660 migrants have tried to cross the Bulgarian-Turkish border in the past 25 hours but have returned voluntarily after they had seen that the border was well-guarded."

Bulgaria is a member of the European Union but not the border-free Schengen Area, Reuters noted.

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