At Turkey's frontier with Europe, everyone wants to be Syrian


  • World
  • Sunday, 08 Mar 2020

FILE PHOTO - Migrants line up for food aid as they wait at Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing with Greece's Kastanies, near Edirne, Turkey, March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Murad Sezer

KARAAGAC, Turkey (Reuters) - Syrians camped on Turkey's border with Greece believe their hopes of finding sanctuary in the European Union are being undermined by the thousands of other migrants at the frontier who have relatively safe homelands.

Vastly outnumbered by Afghans and Pakistanis at the border, Syrians who have fled their country's protracted civil war say most of their fellow migrants are jumping on the bandwagon for economic reasons, and then pretending to be Syrian refugees.

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