Bulgaria's new 'Iron Curtain' keeping people out, not in

  • 8 years ago
In Soviet times, the now rusty watchtowers and barbed wire fences near the windswept Bulgarian village of Shtit stopped people escaping Communism over the border into Turkey. Now, 25 years later, a new "Iron Curtain" of sorts has been erected, aimed at stopping an exodus going the other way -- migrants crossing from Turkey into Europe.

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