'Left to the dogs': migrants at Turkey-Greece border lose hope By Reuters

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When Sawsan al-Musawa heard a week ago that President Tayyip Erdogan had opened Turkey's outskirts for vagrants to cross into Europe, the Syrian mother of four remaining an exile camp in eastern Turkey and traveled west to the Greek fringe.  

After six days, Musawa and her kids, incorporating two children with cerebral paralysis, were exploring nature at a bus stop in the fringe city of Edirne, drained, disappointed, and irate as their fantasy of another life in Europe reached an unexpected conclusion at the EU wilderness.  

"For what reason did he (Erdogan) do this to us on the off chance that he realized Greece won't let us cross?" she asked, sitting on a carpet close to a heap of sacks brimming with garments and diapers for her children, matured 13 and 7, who lay on the ground making unsteady developments and looking frightened.  

Thousand of vagrants from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Africa are stayed outdoors along a stretch of the fringe among Turkey and Greece, two NATO partners whose relations - never simple - have been additionally stressed by the transient emergency.  

Presently, numerous vagrants are befuddled and uncertain what to do.


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