A total of 5,247 migrants arrived in the Greek islands
from nearby Turkey in December, the Ekathimerini news website reported on
Wednesday.
According to the Greek police's...
Seven irregular migrants died on Thursday when their
boat sank in Turkey's Lake Van, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
The boat, carrying 71 irregular migrants,...
Interior
Minister Süleyman Soylu said Turkey has apprehended 371,000 irregular migrants
thus far this year, the Diken news website reported on Wednesday.
According
to Soylu this year’s figure...
Thousands of migrants at overcrowded migrant camps on
the island of Lesbos in Greece should return to Turkey, the Greek government
announced a day after a...
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced that
he would visit Athens and Ankara in October after an unexpected surge in
numbers of migrants crossing from Turkey...
A warning issued by Turkey about opening the route to
Europe for migrants was "neither a threat nor a bluff," Turkish Vice
President Fuat Oktay said...
The bodies of 25
illegal migrants who apparently froze to death were discovered on the
Turkish-Iraqi border with the melting of snow in the area, according...
Two
Pakistani asylum seekers said they were battered by Greek police who sent them
back to Turkey, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on Thursday.
The
asylum seekers,...
