Turkish-Greek border, covering almost all of the trench to 120 km long, 30 meters wide and 7 meters deep to be. Ditch, and the tanks, and aims to prevent the passage of illegal immigrants

Greece, Evros approximately 20-kilometer section of the frontier with digging trenches with a depth of 30 meters wide and 7 meters to 120 km long-winded, Western Thrace, an important part of the military forces plan to transfer the Aegean islands. Meriç'deki "Ditch the project," according to the map Vima'ya To Internet newspaper publisher, after the completion of the project staff, the need for a large part of this region where military forces nakledilebilecek islands.
Meric Turkish-Greek border, covering almost all of the ditch, and the passage of tanks would make it impossible, both to prevent the arrival of illegal immigrants to Greece, and the Maritsa, Arda and Dimoteka Eritropotamos rivers near the town of farmland in winter overset to limit their losses. The correct distance away from the border to Bulgaria, albeit a small part of the planned extension of the 14.5-kilometer first stage was completed in the face of the ditch Karaağaç'ın Meric. The second stage, a 5-km section was excavated.
'Crisis' he gave up the wire fenceAuthorities now crossings of illegal immigrants from this region had reduced to almost non-existent. Excavation work is now extending to the village of Nea Vissa Ardania 13.5 kilometers from the village entered the second stage. Around the village of Nea Vissa beginning of the year the Greek government against the Smuggling of Migrants 12.5 kilometers stated that he would build a wire mesh. However, because of the economic crisis, this project remained on paper. Public Order Minister Christos Papuçis, wire weave together to build the time did not repeating.
'Impossible to transition to the tanks' they sayThe project will be built in the framework of a bridge at some point in the ditch. Military experts, ditch the project is complete, an important defense of Greece said that the problem would disappear. Experts, mobile bridges for the tanks to pass by specifying that the 26-meter long, 30 meters width of the ditch suggested that the transition makes it impossible. Greece, Evros River border to prevent illegal immigrants from the EU wants the Greek territory, and the short name as defined in the FRONTEX Guard Force, the Turkish-Greek border patrols since the fall.
210 days, excavatedStudies of up to 210 days in the ditch are on duty 12 officers and 452 other. To date, a total of 159,600 work hours was 1.5 million cubic meters of excavation. The project, as well as military experts, faculty members also took part in the University of Thessaloniki. When the completion date provided in the ditch. (Hurriyet)