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The United Nations’ refugee company (UNHCR) has mentioned it’s “deeply distressed” through experiences of just about 100 bare migrants on the border between Greece and Turkey.
“UNHCR is deeply distressed by the shocking reports and images of 92 people, who were reported to have been found at the Greek-Turkish land border, stripped of their clothes,” the agency tweeted Sunday.
“We condemn such cruel and degrading treatment and call for a full investigation into this incident,” it added.
Turkey and Greece have blamed each and every different for the location. Greece’s Minister of Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarachi, tweeted {a photograph} Saturday of what he implied have been probably the most 92 migrants on the border, accusing Turkey of shameful habits.
It was once no longer transparent why the boys within the picture weren’t clothed.
“Turkey’s behavior towards 92 migrants whom we rescued at the borders today, is a shame for civilization,” Mitarachi tweeted, along the {photograph}.
The Migration Minister added he anticipated Ankara to research the incident and to give protection to its borders with the European Union (EU).
CNN has no longer been in a position to independently check the {photograph}.
Greek police mentioned Saturday that its forces on Friday had “discovered 92 illegal migrants without clothes and some of them with injuries on their bodies,” close to the rustic’s northern border.
“Following an investigation by Greek police and officials from the EU border agency Frontex, it was found that they [the migrants] were pushed into Greek territory, via Evros river, in dinghies from Turkey to Greece,” police added in a observation on Twitter.
The observation added Greek government had straight away supplied the migrants with clothes, meals and primary support.
Greece’s Ministry of Citizen Protection mentioned in a observation Saturday that, in keeping with accounts from the migrants, that they had been transported to the Evros river through automobiles belonging to Turkish government, the place they then boarded dinghies to pass over to the Greek facet.
“Turkey continues to openly instrumentalise immigrants, violate human rights, [and] violate International law,” the observation persevered.
Turkey has denied involvement within the incident.
“As you couldn’t find one single case of human rights violation by [Turkey], you just seek to expose [the] image of your cruelty you’ve inflicted as if [Turkey’s] done [it],” the rustic’s Deputy Interior Minister Ismail Catakli tweeted Saturday in line with Mitarachi.
Catakli additionally accused Greece of “manipulations and dishonesty,” in his tweet.
Greece closing 12 months completed construction a 40-kilometer (25-mile) wall alongside its border with Turkey amid issues that the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan may just motive an inflow of other people in the hunt for asylum.
The nation was once on the middle of Europe’s migrant disaster within the mid-2010s, when thousands and thousands of refugees and migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq traveled to the continent. It has taken a hardline method since then, rebuffing pleas from Turkey and global organizations to permit extra migrants via its borders.
