Amid migrant crisis, Greece-Turkey conflict plays out on social media By Reuters

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Greeks and Turks are pursuing an intermediary war via web-based networking media with photographs, video and editorial implying to show the opposite side carrying on gravely in a vagrant emergency that has truly stressed effectively tense relations among Athens and Ankara.  

An expected 35,000 vagrants from the Middle East, Afghanistan, Pakistan and somewhere else have been attempting to enter Greece, an European Union part state, since Ankara said on Feb. 28 it would never again keep transients on its region as required under a 2016 arrangement with the European Union as a byproduct of help.  

Greece has utilized nerve gas and water gun to keep them down.  

On Greek Twitter, the hashtags GreeceUnderAttack and GreeceDefendsEurope have gotten normal. On Turkish Twitter KahpeYunan (GreekBitch) was quickly a drifting subject. Outside Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu utilized the tag GreeceAttacksRefugees.  

One video circling on Monday seemed to show a tractor on the Greek side splashing fluid toward the fringe fence, soaking many transients assembled on the Turkish side.


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