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UN: 13,000 Migrants Gathered Along Turkish-Greek Border

Agence France-Presse

   GENEVA - Some 13,000 migrants have gathered along the Turkish-Greek
   border after Turkey's president threatened to allow some of the 3.6
   million refugees in the country cross into Europe, the
   UnitedNationssaid Saturday.

   "Thousands of migrants, including families with young children, are
   passing a cold night along the border between Turkey and Greece," the
   International Organization for Migration said in a statement.

   The U.N.agency said its staff had been tracking the movement of people
   from Istanbul and were providing humanitarian assistance to the most
   vulnerable.

   "By Saturday evening, staff working along the 212-kilometre-long border
   between Turkey and Greece and in the capital had observed at least
   13,000 people gathered at the formal border crossing points
   atPazarkuleandIpsalaand multiple informal border crossings," it said.

   The agency said it had spotted "groups of between several dozen and
   more than 3,000."

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