{"id":35635,"date":"2021-08-21T18:20:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/greece-extends-border-wall-deter-afghans-trying-reach-europe"},"modified":"2021-08-21T18:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T09:20:13","slug":"greece-extends-border-wall-to-deter-afghans-trying-to-reach-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35635","title":{"rendered":"Greece extends border wall to deter Afghans trying to reach Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance system also installed at fence bordering Turkey as Greek ministers vow to turn back refugees<\/p>\n<p>Greece said it has completed a 25-mile (40km) wall on its border with Turkey and installed a new surveillance system to prevent possible asylum seekers from trying to reach Europe after the Taliban\u2019s takeover of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s sweeping advance last week has sparked fears that Europe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/16\/expected-afghan-influx-reopens-divisions-over-refugees-europe\">could face a migrant crisis<\/a> similar to that in 2015, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/20\/afghanistan-refugees-evacuation-q-and-a\">people fleeing persecution<\/a> or further conflict.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/greece-extends-border-wall-deter-afghans-trying-reach-europe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surveillance system also installed at fence bordering Turkey as Greek ministers vow to turn back refugeesGreece said it has completed a 25-mile (40km) wall on its border with Turkey and installed a new surveillance system to prevent possible asylum see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,221,402,491,494,61,1017,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-greece","category-migration","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-turkey","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35650,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35635\/revisions\/35650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}