{"id":35954,"date":"2021-08-26T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/26\/greece-will-not-be-gateway-to-europe-for-afghans-fleeing-taliban-say-officials"},"modified":"2021-08-26T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T06:00:40","slug":"greece-will-not-be-gateway-to-europe-for-afghans-fleeing-taliban-say-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35954","title":{"rendered":"Greece will not be \u2018gateway\u2019 to Europe for Afghans fleeing Taliban, say officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athens calls for a united response, as refugees already in Lesbos hope their asylum claims will now be reconsidered<\/p>\n<p>Greek officials have said that Greece will not become a \u201cgateway\u201d to Europe for Afghan asylum seekers and have called for a united response to predictions of an increase in refugee arrivals to the country.<\/p>\n<p>Greece\u2019s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotaki, has spoken to Turkey\u2019s president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, about the developing situation in Afghanistan this week. Greek migration minister Notis Mitarachi last week said: \u201cWe cannot have millions of people leaving Afghanistan and coming to the European Union \u2026 and certainly not through Greece.\u201d The country has just completed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/21\/greece-extends-border-wall-deter-afghans-trying-reach-europe\">25-mile (40km) wall along its land border with Turkey<\/a> and installed an automated surveillance system with cameras, radars and drones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/aug\/26\/greece-will-not-be-gateway-to-europe-for-afghans-fleeing-taliban-say-officials\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athens calls for a united response, as refugees already in Lesbos hope their asylum claims will now be reconsideredGreek officials have said that Greece will not become a \u201cgateway\u201d to Europe for Afghan asylum seekers and have called for a united respon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2483,"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":[46,221,530,59,402,53,86,491,494,61,44,1017,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-europe","category-european-union","category-global-development","category-greece","category-human-rights","category-law","category-migration","category-refugees","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","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\/35954","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\/2483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35955,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35954\/revisions\/35955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}