Greece has erected a 40 km (25-mile) fencing wall and surveillance system on its border with Turkey as it fears a surge of Afghan migrants amid the Taliban crisis, reported BBC. The move comes after Turkey, the neighboring country to Greece, asked European countries to take responsibility for the migrants from Afghanistan.

“We cannot wait, passively, for the possible impact,” Greece’s Citizens’ Protection Minister Michalis Chrisochoidis said on a visit to the region of Evros on Friday.

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According to BBC, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while addressing the migration concern during a telephone conversation told Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that the steep rise in people leaving Afghanistan could pose “a serious challenge for everyone.”

Greece was rippled by a massive migrant crisis in 2015 when millions of people from the Middle East crossed Turkey and entered European Union, in an attempt to escape the war and poverty.

In order to avoid the 2015-like crisis, the Greece minister had said that they may send the Afghan migrants who cross their territory illegally. The minister also added that Europe is expecting a heavy rise in Afghan migrants following the Taliban coup.

The militant group Taliban last week took control of Afghanistan after the resignation of President Ashraf Ghani. This came after the group entered the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul but assured a peaceful transfer of power.

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Since then, hundreds of Afghanistan residents are trying to flee the country and escape from the war-torn region as the entry of the Taliban poses a grievous threat to their lives and human rights.

Recently, disturbing footage and images emerged from Kabul as thousands of people were seen flocking to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in the capital in a desperate attempt to fly out of Afghanistan.

Visuals from the airport, showing hordes of people rushing to board flights, had become a representation of the desperation and fear in people of the country.