Thursday, October 28, 2010

EU Sends Soldiers to Seal off Greece-Turkey Border

Condensed from “Armed European Guards Head to the Greece-Turkey Border,” copyright Ian Traynor of the Guardian, published in the Cambodia Daily, Oct. 27, 2010.  All text below is copyright Traynor/the Guardian.


BRUSSELS – A new force of armed European guards is to be dispatched to Greece to patrol the country's border with Turkey in an attempt to stem steeply increasing illegal immigration into Europe.  The deployment . . . will be the first time Brussels has deployed multinational armed forces on the EU's external land border.

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