Updated at 3.46pm BST 3.08pm BST Is Turkey deliberately blocking its borders to Syrian refugees?
First Hungary blocked its southern border with Serbia, putting into action its much-heralded fence, declaring a state of emergency in two southern counties, and arresting dozens of people for attempting to cross the border under new laws unveiled last week by the prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
Senior officials here dismissed Russia's complaints, saying Georgia has moved to block its mountainous border with Chechnya and, just in recent weeks, forced out armed fighters that operated freely in Pankisi among 4,000 Chechen refugees who fled when Russia began its second war in Chechnya in 1999.
Hungary has continued to build its razor-wire fence blocking off the 170km length of its border with Serbia, and on Wednesday police in Budapest blocked refugees from boarding trains to Germany for a second day running.
Then, suddenly, on November 15 Nicaragua's government blocked the route by deploying soldiers at its border with Costa Rica to stop the Cubans.
After they formally ask for an asylum, migrants have three days to reach the border with Hungary, which is rushing to build a barbed wire fence on its border with Serbia to block the migrants.
Italy infuriated France by issuing some Tunisians travel papers allowing them to leave Italy for France, which has tried to block them at its borders with Italy.
Migrants started flowing into the small European state Saturday, after Hungary sealed off its border with neighboring Croatia, effectively blocking one of the main routes used by refugees to reach western Europe.
Hungary's rightwing government declared its southern frontier with Croatia off-limits to arriving migrants, blocking entry with a metal fence and razor-wire just as it did a month ago on its border with Serbia.
In November, it briefly sealed its border with Afghanistan.
