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The Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay) has installed a mobile phone charging station at Turkey’s western Pazarkule border crossing with Greece to help refugees overcome communication challenges and help them stay in touch with their families and friends.

Self-proclaimed “anarchist refugee” from Iran, Abtin Parsa, who has been granted political asylum by Greece, published a call in a well-known anarchist website calling on the anarchist movement to arm illegal immigrants in Evros, stating that “the answer of bullet should be bullet back and this is the only way to open the border for all the immigrants”.

After a two-day hiatus, tensions at the Greek-Turkish border near the Kastanies customs post in the Evros region resumed on Wednesday evening.