Bulgaria Builds Fence To Keep Out Immigrants

Bulgaria is building a razor wire fence on a 30-kilometre (19-mile) stretch of the country's border with Turkey, which it claims is to try to stop illegal immigration.

The three-metre-high fence is expected to be ready by February. It it will run mainly through forested, hilly areas where visibility for border patrols is limited.

During the Cold War, Bulgaria's barbed-wire borders prevented its citizens from fleeing to the West, but after the country joined Nato in 2004 all fences were removed.

Turkey's border with Bulgarian is 170-miles long

"The number of incoming illegal immigrants in Bulgaria has now been reduced several times," Defence Minister Angel Naydenov told a news conference in the border village of Golyam Dervent.

"We have enhanced the border patrols, had additional activities in border surveillance, backed by the presence of the troops right here (in the village of Golyam Dervent).

"I'd like to add something else. No illegal immigrants have entered Bulgarian territory in that particular controlled area."

Border controls have been increased

The authorities have denied claims that the fence is intended to stop refugees from Syria and other war-ravaged countries from entering the country.

More than 11,100 refugees, most of them Syrian, have entered Bulgaria illegally this year, crossing the porous 170-mile border with Turkey, and the country has faced an influx of migrants that far outnumbers its capacity.

Grozyo Milushev Georgiev, a villager from Golyam Dervent, said the flow of refugees has been "really big".

More than 11,000 refugees have crossed the border this year

"In early summer, it periodically started to rise, five to 10 people, then to 20, 40, 50, and finally reached 100 people a day," Mr Georgiev said.

"Mothers with young children, pregnant women, elderly men and women, all kinds of people - but since the authorities took urgent measures, this flow has stopped."

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