Standing 10 feet (3.0 m) tall and fortified with razor wire coils, the fence covers the least visible section of the border between the Lesovo border checkpoint and the village of Golyam Dervent. The number of illegal entries to Hungary declined greatly after the barrier was finished as it effectively abolished the access to asylum i… Its total length is 201 kilometers. Bulgaria is set to complete its border fence with Turkey by the end of the year, Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev told Bulgarian broadcaster Nova TV. In January 2014, Bulgaria started construction of a 30-kilometer long security fence along its border with Turkey to contain a surge of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa. In January 2014, Bulgaria started construction of a 30 km (19 mi) long security fence along its border with Turkey to contain a surge of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.

At the border police station in Elhovo, Bulgaria, seven officers monitor a bank of TV screens displaying live footage along the fence. Bulgaria started erecting a barbed wire fence along its border with Turkey in November 2013. The border fence in only one of the multiple measures taken by the Bulgarian authorities to protect adequately the Bulgaria-Turkey border which is also an external border of the European Union, Tsvetan Tsvetanov went on to say. Standing 10 ft (3.0 m) tall and fortified with razor wire coils, the fence covers the least visible section of the border between the Lesovo border checkpoint and the village of Golyam Dervent. Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, and now Hungary have all built their versions of the anti-immigrant fence along parts of their borders. They are … The fence was constructed during the European migrant crisis (see timeline), with the aim to ensure border security by preventing illegal immigrants from entering, and enabling the option to enter through official checkpoints and claim asylum in Hungary in accordance with international and European law. In 2015, Hungary built a border barrier on its border with Serbia and Croatia.