Ankara and Athens exchange summons of ambassadors .. Erdogan accuses Greece of following the "methods of the Nazis" with immigrants

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the Greek security forces of "Nazi" tactics with migrants trying to cross its borders with Turkey. While Ankara summoned its Greek ambassador, Michael Christos Demeses, and asked him to end Athena's "violations" of Turkish territorial waters, Greece summoned the Turkish ambassador, Ozragergen, to present a complaint against a Turkish coast guard boat.

"There is no difference between these images on the borders of Greece and what the Nazis did," Erdogan said after showing videos on the border in front of his party's lawmakers. "Shooting innocent people and exposing them to all forms of inhuman treatment ... It is barbaric in the full sense of this word."

In a related context, the Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned today, Wednesday, the Greek ambassador in Ankara and demanded that the authorities of his country end the breach of Turkish territorial waters. Anatolia news agency quoted Turkish diplomatic sources as saying that Ankara had demanded that Athens end the detention of journalists reporting on the conditions of asylum seekers in the Greek islands of Rhodes and Medellí.

In return, Greece summoned the Turkish ambassador to Athens to file a complaint after the Greek Coast Guard said that a Turkish Coast Guard boat had intentionally collided with one of its ships.

Turkey had accused the Greek security forces of killing four migrants shot, but Greece denied this and accused Ankara of spreading "false news" and said it was its duty to protect the borders of the European Union.

Greek response
In response to Erdogan's comments today, Greek government spokesman Stelios Pitsas said that the Turkish president "is constantly trying to ship the air with such statements." This section, and he is entitled to protection according to international law. "

Tens of thousands of migrants have been trying to enter the European Union member Greece since Turkey said on February 28 that it would no longer keep them on its soil. It also spends its 2016 agreement with Brussels in exchange for European Union aid for refugees.

Greek security used tear gas and water cannons to prevent migrants from crossing the border, and Athens suspended asylum applications for a month, saying it had prevented more than 42,000 irregular migrants from entering the European Union in the past two weeks illegally.

The Greek government spokesman also denied what was stated in a report published by the American "New York Times" that revealed that Athena is holding irregular immigrants in a secret location, where they are prevented from contacting lawyers, and they cannot apply for asylum.