Turkey, for its part, has announced that it will ban the Iraqi, Syrian or Yemeni population from flying from Turkish airports to Belarus.
The Polish Ministry of Defense has denounced in a message spread on social networks the “instrumentalization of women and children” as part of a Belarusian “propaganda” operation.
“Another example of instrumental treatment of migrants by Belarus. Migrants are forced to walk along the fence that separates the border,” according to a statement from the Ministry, which is accompanied by a video recorded by the army and where several people are seen wandering by the border fence.
On Thursday, Deputy Interior Minister Stanislaw Zaryn said there is a “propaganda campaign to stir up emotions” by Belarus, urging migrants to spread images of children camped there.
Meanwhile, this Friday the Polish authorities have reported more than 200 new attempts to cross the border, where he has carried out 26 expulsions and three arrests have been made.
According to these authorities, “since the beginning of the migration crisis in August” there have been “about 33,200 attempts to cross the border illegally, while in all of last year there were only 88”.
Hundreds of migrants, mostly from Middle Eastern countries and Afghanistan, have been camped for weeks along the 420 kilometers of the Polish-Belarusian border.
Warsaw accuses the Belarusian regime of Alkesándr Lukashenko of allowing and encouraging the arrival of thousands of people to Belarus from those countries, with the aim of trying to cross the Polish border.
Poland maintains a state of alert in all border municipalities and has recently changed its immigration law to allow quick ejects of undocumented people and has undertaken the construction of a border wall and an electronic surveillance device that will cost about 350 million euros.
Turkey bans Iraqis, Syrians and Yemenis from flying
Citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen will not be able to fly from Turkish airports to Belarus, according to the Turkish Civil Aviation.
In response to the announcement, the Iraqi Embassy in Russia has offered to charter a plane with Iraqi citizens in Belarus who “wish to return” to their country of origin. Thus, he has urged those who wish to register to be able to return to Iraq.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ahmed al Sahaf, has confirmed to Rudaw the start of the registration process and has promised those who have lost their passports that they will be offered a provisional one so they can return. It is, he explained, voluntary and free returns.
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