Bulgarian troops to tackle migrant influx from Turkey

SOFIA, 03 November 2021, (TON): The defence minister announced “Bulgaria deployed 350 soldiers to the border with Turkey to help police cope with the growing influx of migrants.”

Georgi Panayotov told  media “soldiers arrived at the Bulgarian-Turkish border since today to back up the border police.”

He added that the 350 troops deployed with 40 units of equipment.

According to the interior ministry “this year has already seen more than 6,500 people cross illegally into Bulgaria, three times the numbers for the first nine months of 2020.”

The east European country sits on one of the main routes migrants use to enter the EU from the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Bulgaria is an external border for the European Union. A partly damaged barbed-wire fence runs the length of the 259-kilometre frontier with Turkey.

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