Bulgaria: Locals react to migrant crisis ongoing at nearby Turkey border

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Locals from Bulgaria's Kapitan Andreevo, Lubimets and Harmanli reacted to the migrant crisis ongoing at the nearby Turkey-Greece border, on Saturday.

"I'm coming from Canakkale [Turkish city], there are a lot of migrants walking around the route. I saw them at the petrol stations and, mostly at the bus station in Edirne. There are a lot of them. They go every day to the station to try to catch a bus," said Husein, a lorry driver.

Another driver, Zradvko, said that "years ago we had problems with the migrants from the Turkish side of the border as they tried to enter into the lorries from the top. Now there are a lot of security checkpoints so the problem seems resolved."

A Lubimets resident said he was not worried about the situation: "Migrants are not coming here. Their target is far away in Europe. We are here almost in Turkey. Turkey and Greece are extremely close."

Mohamad, a migrant living in the Harmanli camp, shared that he came there "to make a good life."

"We want to stay here, to live," he added.

According to reports, Bulgarian authorities sent an extra 1,000 troops to the country's border with Turkey, after Ankara announced on February 27 that it would no longer block migrants' passage to the European Union.

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