At the request of Greece, Bulgaria opened an Evros River dam located on its territory on Monday in order to cause intentional flooding and make it more difficult for migrants amassed at the Greek-Turkish border to cross the river.

H/T: Greek Reporter

Although a supporter of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan, Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov honored the Greek request and ordered the Ivailovgrad dam open, causing water levels to rise quickly and the river itself to become more turbulent.

The tweet below shows a picture of the opened dam. Roughly translated it says, “Bulgaria flooded the Evros river opening the Ivaylovgrad dam to increase the flow of the river and prevent the immigrant assault on the border.”

Bulgaria opened the Evros dam after Greece request.

After dam opening, the passage for illegal migrants from Evros becomes even more difficult, as the water level has started to rise further and increase water speed.#GreekBorders #GreeceDefendsEurope pic.twitter.com/RKv9xSZ5FJ — Nicos Triantis (@NTriantis) March 10, 2020

#Update: Meanwhile #Bulgaria has opened their valves of the dam upwards of the "Marista river" flowing down to the #Evros river in #Greece, to rise the water levels making it much difficult for the illegal migrants to cross the river. pic.twitter.com/oBhI7vMb1B — Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) March 10, 2020

Greek authorities patrol the border by helicopte and have set up barbed wire along the banks of the #Evros river to prevent migrants from crossing the river which serves as a natural border between #Greece and #Turkey. pic.twitter.com/XH4Tw5rAP8 — Nic 🇬🇷 (@NicAthens) March 10, 2020

turkey/greek border , not the NGO shave the children trucks pic.twitter.com/wLfM7Q1Aja — Neiljetel (@neiljetel) March 10, 2020