EU Forces Mobilize to Reinforce Greek Borders

Special forces from the European Union reached the Greek-Turkish border, Wednesday, March 11, to back up Greek authorities amid a migrant crisis stemming from Turkey.
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READ MORE: As thousands of migrants continue to mass on the Turkey-Greece border, there were few signs of a breakthrough in emergency talks between Turkey and the European Union Monday.

Meanwhile five EU member states, Germany, Finland, France, Luxembourg and Portugal, agreed to take in unaccompanied migrant children who are stuck in Greece, though the numbers are unclear.

Ankara encouraged migrants to head to the Greek border last week, accusing the EU of failing to keep to the promises it made in a 2016 deal struck at the height of the European refugee crisis. Turkey is hosting around 4 million migrants, many of them escaping the war in Syria.

However, critics say most of those trying to cross into Greece are not from Syria and accuse Turkey of weaponizing migrants to blackmail Europe.
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LINK: https://www.voanews.com/europe/amid-stalemate-over-greece-turkey-border-crisis-eu-takes-migrant-children