The Coronavirus in the Middle East: State and Society in a Time of Crisis - Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Turkey also attempted to capitalize on the crisis to improve its foreign relations. It launched medi-cal aid shipments to the United Kingdom28 and to European Union countries such as Italy and Spain, attempting to improve its deteriorating relations with the West.29 Turkey’s multilateral relations with the European countries had hit to an un-precedented low when Turkey opened its border with Greece in February, sending refugees across the border ostensibly to threaten Europe. Greece used force to prevent the refugees from crossing the border, stranding them in the buffer zone be-tween Greece and Turkey. When the coronavirus crisis emerged, Turkey chose not to escalate the situation further and removed the refugees from the border to repatriation centers in Malatya, Ko-caeli, Kırklareli and Osmaniye provinces
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