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March 01, 2020 A new wave of migrants, at least two thousand, including women and children, arrived on the border between Turkey and Greece this morning to try to enter Europe after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced the opening of borders. The reporters on the spot found out. From Istanbul, migrants, including Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis, march in single file across the fields to the Pazarkule border crossing.

Thousands of other migrants, who were already on the border, spent the night in the cold, lighting fires to warm up. A small group of refugees threw stones at police officers across the border where skirmishes were recorded yesterday after the police refused to let them enter Greece.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu tweeted that up to this morning 76,358 migrants have already left Turkey, via the province of Edirne, where the city of Pazarkule is located, on the border with Greece and Bulgaria. At the moment, it is not possible to confirm this figure. While the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 13 thousand refugees are on the border. Turkey is home to 3.6 million refugees and in recent years the number of Afghans who have entered the country has skyrocketed.