Greece accuses Turkey of trying to provoke it with migrant boats


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  • Saturday, 03 Apr 2021

FILE PHOTO: A crowd of migrants, mostly from Syria, wait at the main bus station under aTurkish flag stretched above them in Istanbul, Turkey, September 17, 2015. REUTERS/Yagiz Karahan

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece accused Turkey on Friday of trying to provoke it by attempting to push boats carrying migrants into Greek waters, a claim Ankara strongly rejected.

Greece and Turkey disagree on a range of issues, including energy resources in the Mediterranean, and tensions between the NATO allies rose last year when thousands of asylum-seekers in Turkey tried to storm the Greek land border.

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