The bodies of four migrants that had frozen to death were discovered near the Greek border. The discovery on Thursday brings to 16 the number of migrants who died after Greek border guards allegedly stripped their clothes at the border and pushed them back into Turkey.
Turkey’s interior minister said on Wednesday that 12 migrants froze to death after Greek border guards stripped them of their clothes at their land border. “Twelve of the 22 migrants pushed back by Greek border units, stripped off from their clothes and shoes, have frozen to death,” Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in a tweet showing blurred photographs of bodies lying by the side of a road.
The four additional bodies were discovered after search operations in the region, according to the governor’s office in Edirne on the border with Greece. Greece’s Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said that the migrants never made it across the border from Turkey.