Greek Prime Minister Miçotakis announced that the new wire mesh built on the banks of the Meriç River will be completed in April 2021.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Miçotakis, passing through Turkey to prevent the construction fence along the Evros river shaft from being completed in April 2021.

In the statement made by the Prime Minister’s office, it was noted that 26 kilometers of new wire mesh, as well as 10 kilometers of old wire mesh, will be improved and 400 more border guards will be assigned to the region.

Miçotakis, who went to Ferecik on Saturday to examine the status of the project at the site, said that the construction of a new fence is necessary “to ensure border security and make Greek citizens feel safer.”

The Kathimerini newspaper published in Greece wrote that the steel structure with barbed wire will be 5 meters high and its cost will reach 62 million 900 thousand euros.

The newspaper said the project was carried out by a consortium of four construction companies.

Turkey, in February, following reports that the four corners of Turkey opened their border crossing with Greece, migrants had gone to Edirne.

The Greek police tried to disperse those waiting in the buffer zone between the border gates of the two countries with gas bombs.

While Greece, on the one hand, protects its land borders by alerting its armed forces; On the other hand, it sent its warships belonging to the Greek navy to the islands off the Turkish coast such as Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Kos, where most of the refugees passed, to protect the maritime borders, which concerned it most.