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epa03094559 Members of a Frontex border control unit inspect the site during the beginning of construction of a state-of-the-art security fence along a 12.5-kilometre stretch of the land border with Turkey, in Nea Vyssa city, Evros, Greece, 06 February 2012. The specific 'bulge' of land extends west of the Evros (Maritsa) River and across from the Turkish border city of Edirne (ancient Andrianople), whereas most of the Greek-Turkish border in the northeast Thrace province is delineated by the Evros River. The project is budgeted at 3.16 million euros and is due for completion in late August or early September 2012. Greece's only land border with Turkey has increasingly been targetted by migrant-smugglers over the past few years as an easier 'route' to ferry mostly third world migrants from non-EU member Turkey into Greece, in a bid to eventually reach western Europe and Britain. In 2011 alone, 54,974 non-legal immigrants clandestinely crossed the Evros border into Greece. EPA/NIKOS ARVANITIDIS