Turkish President Erdogan has again accused Greece of "illegal and reckless pushbacks" of migrant boats in the Aegean. Meanwhile a group of Green MEPs said Greece erected a "wall of lies" to deny its systematic pushback practice.
Migrant charity Aegean Boat Report claims that the Greek coast guard has pushed back scores of migrants in a rubber boat off the island of Rhodes. A video posted by the NGO allegedly shows masked men redirecting the rubber boat as people can be heard shouting in distress.
Greece has called on the European Union to work together with Athens to address the issues of irregular migration and human trafficking.
Greece's Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi says that Athens is ready to stop Turkey sending any "refugee caravans" from their neighboring country into Greece as tensions continue between the two nations over migration issues.
Five children and a woman have reportedly drowned in the Aegean Sea, while five people remain missing. Turkish authorities have accused Greek officials of pushing the migrants back towards Turkey.
Lured by smugglers, Mohammad Jahir came to Greece from Bangladesh four years ago to work at a factory. He ended up as a poorly paid day laborer and still has no legal documents.
A recent incident involving asylum-seekers on the Greek-Turkish border raises questions about how Greek authorities use EU-funded surveillance technology for search and rescue missions, a DW investigation has found.
InfoMigrants' recent interview with the Greek migration minister, Notis Mitarachi, about a 5-year seasonal worker visa scheme for Bangladeshi nationals prompted a lot of questions about working in Greece. Here are some answers.
Greek authorities confirmed that a total of 61 migrants have reached the Greek island of Crete after at least one child died of unspecified causes while being airlifted to hospital. The group had earlier been rescued by a cargo vessel.
A group from the Yazidi minority have been sleeping outside a migrant camp in northern Greece for almost a fortnight. Greek authorities say the facility is full.
Greece has confirmed that it will massively extend a steel fence at the Turkish border to prevent migrants from entering. But a similar wall between Lithuania and Belarus is reportedly being "deliberately damaged" to help migrants reach the EU.
Bailey Begum from Bangladesh works as a street food vendor in Athens. She has been living in Greece for four years without documents. Now she's hoping for a change: the Greek government announced it wants to regularize thousands of undocumented Bangladeshi migrants already working in Greece.