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Turkish officials said Greek forces had killed a migrant and wounded five others on March 4 as they tried to cross the border between the two countries.

Greek riot police and troops fired tear gas early on Wednesday at hundreds of migrants as they made another attempt to cross the border from Turkey into Greece.
The air was thick with smoke on both the Greek and Turkish sides of the Kastanies border crossing, and fire engines were also at hand to put out smoldering blazes on the ground.

Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stone-throwing migrants who once more tried to force their way across the border from Turkey on Wednesday morning.
Clashes at the border crossing by the northeastern Greek town of Kastanies have been ongoing since Ankara's announcement late last week that it would no longer stop Syrian refugees trying to reach European soil.

The presidents of the executive European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament - Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and David Sassoli - were joined by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis as they took a helicopter tour of the country's land border with Turkey.

Greek troops and riot police remained on high alert on Tuesday along the land border between Greece and Turkey, the main flashpoint in an escalating row between the EU and Ankara over how to deal with a new wave of migrants and refugees.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis today briefed US President Donald Trump on the threat to Greece's sovereignty from mounting waves of migrants and refugees from Turkey.

Athens charges that the migrants have been encouraged and coordinated by Ankara and is determined to protect its borders.

Greek police fired tear gas to repel hundreds of stone-throwing migrants who tried to force their way across the border from Turkey on March 1, with thousands more behind them after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement.

Greece would on Monday conduct military exercises using real ammunition near the Evros land border with Turkey.
The exercises, set to take place at border outposts at Kipoi and Kastanies, were announced Sunday by the Fourth Army Corps, which is charged with defending the Greek-Turkish borders in Thrace and the Aegean Sea.

Migrants amassed at the Greek-Turkish border made about 9,600 attempts to enter Greece overnight, Deputy Defense Minister Alkiviadis Stefanis said Sunday.

All attempts were successfully thwarted, Stefanis said before leaving for the border area.

At the border crossing of Kastanies, there are at least 3,000 migrants waiting to cross into Greece, authorities estimate.

Guards on Greece's northeastern land border with Turkey made "deterrent use" of tear gas to disperse some 500 refugees and migrants trying to enter the country and the European Union after Ankara loosened controls on migrant flows.