(29 Feb 2020) Refugees and migrants gathered near Turkey's border with Greece on Saturday as they attempted entry into Europe following deadly airstrikes in Syria.
The number of migrants at Turkey's Pazarkule border has been increasing since 33 Turkish soldiers were killed in a strike in northeastern Syria.
In recent days, Turkish police stopped some 150 refugees about 1 kilometre (half a mile) from the border, preventing them from going further.
With Turkey signalling that it would let the waiting migrants leave, Greece and neighbouring Bulgaria bolstered border security.
The European Union warned that the fighting in northern Syria could degenerate into open war and that it stood ready to protect its security interests.
The airstrike by Syrian government forces marks the largest death toll for Turkey in a single day since it first intervened in Syria in 2016.
It’s a major escalation in a conflict between Turkish and Russia-backed Syrian forces that has raged since early February.
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