BBC: Turkish police move to stop Greece pushing migrants back
Turkey says it is deploying 1,000 police officers to its land border with Greece to halt the pushback of migrants into Turkey.
Thousands of migrants and refugees, desperate to get into the EU, remain in the border zone. Greek guards have fired tear gas to stop them entering.
The extra Turkish police are going to the Meric river (called Evros in Greek) on the border, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said.
The EU has condemned Turkey's policy.
The Greek government says that since early Saturday its forces have prevented the illegal entry of 34,778 people and arrested 244.
Syrians, Afghans, Pakistanis and West Africans are among the migrants at the border.
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