Turkey: 19 Migrants Now Found Dead at Border With Greece

Turkey: 19 Migrants Now Found Dead at Border With Greece
View of a steel border wall between Greece and Turkey in Alexandroupolis, Greece, on Aug. 10, 2021. Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters
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ISTANBUL—Turkish authorities on Thursday found seven more dead bodies near Turkey’s border with Greece, raising to 19 the number of migrants who have frozen to death at the frontier.

Turkey has blamed Greece for the deaths, accusing Greek border guards of illegally pushing the migrants back over the frontier. Greece has strongly rejected the accusation.