Filenews 29 June 2022
According to an announcement, in order to limit the phenomenon of illegal and uncontrolled exit from the Center, the Ministry of Interior is proceeding with the installation of double external fencing while it has been strengthened. and guarding both with a police presence and with a private security company.
The Ministry emphasizes that the Asylum Service upon entering the Centre proceeds, for all immigrants without exception, to the necessary and imposed, according to the protocols, diagnostic tests, but also treatments there and where necessary, before they are allowed to leave the Center.
"In fact, only recently, the Asylum Service in collaboration with the Medical Services of the Ministry of Health, proceeded to the upgrade of the medical centre at the Pournara Centre and its staffing with 3 doctors and 6 nurses as well as with the necessary equipment in order to optimize the management of various cases", it is added in the same announcement.
Furthermore, in order to limit the phenomenon of illegal and uncontrolled exit from the Centre, the Ministry of Interior proceeds with the installation of double external fencing while the guarding has been strengthened both with a police presence and with a private security company.
"We do not want and neither can we beautify the situation"
"We do not want and cannot beautify the situation. On the contrary, we reiterate that if it is not possible to immediately and drastically limit the flows from the green line, the problems will increase. Neither the creation of new spaces is a solution, nor much less passive tolerance. It is imperative that we reduce the flows from sub-Saharan Africa in particular, but also that returns are increased as much as possible. And it is in this direction that all the measures taken are moving.
In this effort we ask for the support of the citizens. It must be realised that Turkey's ongoing hybrid threat with the daily promotion of hundreds of irregular migrants across the green line is a national matter and requires collegiality to address it."
