Greece fortifies border to block refugees from Turkish-Syrian earthquakes

Greek police officers next to a border fence in Greece’s Evros region bordering Turkey. The country’s migration minister has vowed to extend a border wall. Photograph: Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters

Greece has reinforced border controls along its land and sea frontier with Turkey amid expectations of a new wave of arrivals by people displaced in the earthquakes that have devastated south-east Turkey and northern Syria.

Hundreds of extra border guards began patrolling the Greek-Turkish land frontier in the Evros region at the weekend as contingency measures were stepped up to stave off the expected flows.