'Left to the dogs' - migrants at Turkey-Greece border lose hope


A migrant arrives to a coast guard station to finish his registration formalities, following a failed attempt to cross to the Greek island of Lesbos, at the Turkish coastal town of Dikili, in Balikesir province, Turkey, March 6, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

EDIRNE, Turkey (Reuters) - When Sawsan al-Musawa heard last week that President Tayyip Erdogan had opened Turkey's borders for migrants to cross into Europe, the Syrian mother of four left a refugee camp in eastern Turkey and headed west to the Greek border.

Six days later, Musawa and her children, including two sons with cerebral palsy, were camping at a bus station in the border city of Edirne, tired, frustrated, and angry as their dream of a new life in Europe came to an abrupt end at the EU frontier.

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