Ankara deployed 1,000 special police to the border to prevent Athens from pushing the flow of refugees back to Turkey.

"1,000 well-equipped police officers have been deployed to the Meric River at the border to prevent the flow of people being pushed back," Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu told reporters today. Visit northwestern Edirne province.

Minister Soylu accused Greece of mistreating refugees from Turkey, insisting Ankara would "not allow this to happen" and urged the European Union (EU) to adopt a more appropriate approach. He said the EU border security agency had pushed 4,900 refugees back to Turkey and left 164 injured.

"We ask the European Union to act in a different way to pay attention to their needs, as well as human honor," Turkish officials said.

Ankara accused the Greek police of using live bullets on the migrants, killing three people, but Athens rejected it and called it "fake news". The Greek government has announced that it has blocked more than 7,000 illegal crossings in the past 24 hours.

Large numbers of migrants have sought entry into Greece since Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared "open" to the influx of people from Syria into Europe to put pressure on the European Union (EU). . Ankara said it had been able to accommodate more than 4 million refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, and criticized the EU for not supporting a military operation in Syria.

Migrants are a sensitive issue in Europe, especially when Greece faced more than one million people who flocked to the country in 2015. Many EU members were then forced to accept part of the migration, causing This topic is fully utilized by anti-EU and anti-refugees.