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Turkey opens gates into Europe as migrants gather on border

by Associated Press
| February 29, 2020 4:30 AM

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country's borders with Europe were open Saturday, making good on a longstanding threat to let refugees into the continent as thousands of migrants gathered at the frontier with Greece.

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