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Refugees walking back in 2020 after a failed bid to cross the border to Greece from Turkey near Evros River.
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Peter Schwartzstein
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In recent years, Greek soldiers on patrol along the Evros River have found themselves at times unsure of which country they were in.
Sometimes extreme rain swells the river, which forms most of the Greece-Turkey land border, enough to obscure telltale markers. On other occasions, drought reduces it in places to a patchwork of stagnant puddles, with little discernible water separating the two sides. On other occasions, thick smoke from nearby wildfires has covered the river, also known as the Meric or the Maritsa, in an all-concealing haze.
