(abc.net.au
>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Greek security forces of behaving like Nazis for using force against asylum seekers trying to cross the border from Turkey into the European Union.
>"There is no difference between those images on the Greek border and what the Nazis did," he said.
>"Opening fire on innocent people, exposing them to all kinds of inhumane treatment … [It] is barbarism in the full sense of the word," he said, repeating his call on Greece to let migrants cross its territory to reach richer western European countries.
>"Why are you obstructing them so much and carrying out Nazi tortures on them?" he added.
Turkey has previously accused Greek security forces of shooting dead four migrants, a claim rejected by Athens as "fake news".
Greece said it had a duty to protect the EU border.
On Wednesday local time, a Reuters correspondent in the area saw a thick cloud of smoke billowing near the village of Kastanies on the Greek side of the border and also heard chanting.
>"There was a lot of tension with teargas fired from both sides on the Greek-Turkish border," a Greek government official told Reuters.
