Sabah: Another version of the capture of the Greek soldiers

In particular, the German newspaper Rheinische Post quotes a version of the case through Sabah's articles. As the Turkish newspaper writes, behind the incident there is probably no espionage, but the intense activity of Greek border guards to stop irregular immigrants coming from Turkey or even to push them back, something that is illegal according to the European and international law.

"Human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Pro Asyl have long published cases of illegal, in part and murderous push back attacks by the Greek coastguard," the Turkish newspaper writes. "Recently, the Turkish media have written on many occasions such actions by Greek soldiers at the common borders. Ankara is very outraged by all this."

The German newspaper released Sabah's information on an incident last week involving 29 refugees, mostly of Arab origin, who were saved in freezing temperatures by Turkish security forces on an island in the Evros river.

The refugees told the Turkish newspaper columnist that after the illegal crossing of the border they were arrested by the Greek police and then masked men forced them to go back and swim to an island in the Evros. One of the refugees, Libyan Mustafa Belkazem, reported that the Greeks beat them, took their phones up and left them foodless, the other three failed to reach the island and "disappeared".

According to Sabah last year, Greece unlawfully returned back to Turkey around 4,000 irregular refugees. "This tactic violates the EU's refugee agreement with Turkey, according to which Greece can legitimately send refugees to Turkey and in exchange the EU must accept a certain number of Syrians from Turkey."