Turkish border troops fired warning shots at a group of suspects attempting to cross Evros river into Greece on Tuesday.
One man managed to escape and was arrested near the Greek village of Kastanies. He is being held on “protective custody” for illegally entering the country.
Greek authorities have nor released his name. He was holding a Turkish passport issued at the city of Adana, in southern Turkey.
The incident happened in the area, where earlier in the month two Greek soldiers inadvertently crossed into Turkey, were arrested and are still held in a prison in Edirne.
The group was spotted on the Turkish side of the river, by an army patrol which fired warning shots.
Three suspects were arrested by the Turkish troops, according to a report in the Anadolu News Agency, which says that two of them were PKK suspects.
The Turkish semi-official agency says that one of the suspects had been carrying out activities in northern Iraq for the PKK, while the other had joined the PKK in Germany and was jailed for a year in 2016 for trying to illegally cross from Turkey to Bulgaria.
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