Tag: Greece
GREECE has designated Turkey as a “safe” country for asylum-seekers from Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Somalia. The Greek Foreign and Migration Ministries said today that refugees from those countries would be safe in Turkey. “They are ...
EUROPEAN authorities expressed concern today at Greece’s use of a sound cannon to try to scare refugees away. Greek border police have begun firing bursts of deafening noise from an armoured truck over the Turkish ...
The Council of Europe’s top human rights official condemned the Greek government today for its illegal pushbacks of refugees. Commissioner for human rights Dunja Mijatovic spoke out on the eve of a Somali refugee going ...
GREECE is being taken to the European Court of Human Rights for its massive “pushback” operation, in which more than 180 migrants were expelled to Turkey last year. Rights campaigners said today that the Legal ...
Ylva Johansson and Notis Mitarachi have fundamentally different ideas about how Europe should handle migration. While the Greek migration minister has a reputation of being tough, Johansson, the EU commissioner for migration and home affairs, ...
HUMAN RIGHTS groups have condemned a top European Union official for window-dressing the bloc’s policy of containing refugees at Europe’s edges. Today, EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson was helicoptered to the Greek islands to ...
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece “can do more” to investigate reports it has pushed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, a senior European Union official said on Monday, as Greek authorities pledged a new migrant reception centre on the ...
Mar 12, 2021 Erdogan: Seven years of iciness give way to diplomacy Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that there is “no problem” with reinitiating higher-level Egypt-Turkey ties. That’s a shift, coming after a seven-year freeze ...
CLOSE to 10,000 people were forcibly pushed back across the Aegean Sea to Turkey last year by the Greek coastguard and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), according to a human rights monitoring ...
VATHY, Greece (AP) — On a pine-covered hill above the sparkling blue Aegean lies a boy’s grave, a teddy bear leaning against the white marble tombstone. His first boat ride was his last — the ...