Sharjah24 – AFP: Turkey on Wednesday accused neighbouring Greece of allowing 12 migrants to die in the winter cold after stripping them of their clothes and then pushing them back across the border.
The charges from Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu -- dismissed as "utter nonsense" by Greece -- threaten to escalate simmering tensions between the rival members of the NATO defence alliance.
They also highlight Turkey's fears that EU countries are turning a blind eye to concerns that its existing refugee camps near Syria will be overrun by Afghans fleeing the Taliban following the fundamentalists' return to power.
Soylu posted blurred images on Twitter showing partially naked bodies lying by the roadside.
"Twelve of the 22 migrants pushed back by Greek border units" froze to death after being "stripped (of) their clothes and shoes", Soylu wrote in English.
The "EU is remediless, weak and void of humane feelings", he added.
Soylu said the pictures were taken near Turkey's western border town of Ipsala.
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