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From file: Members of the Turkish Coast Guard take migrants, who were allegedly pushed back from the Greek side, on a boat during a patrol to search and rescue for migrants offshore the Ayvalik district in Balikesir, Turkey, April 10 2021 | Photo: Erdem Sahin / EPA
  • Greece
  • Turkey

Migrants: Greece accuses Turkey of 'violating obligations'

Greece has once again blamed Turkey for "violating its obligations" after rescuing 10 migrants from a capsized vessel in the Aegean Sea on Friday that - says Greek Migration Minister - "was allowed to depart from Turkish territorial waters."

Migrants, turned back by the Greek coast guard, waited several hours in the open sea for rescue workers to come and get them. Photo: DR
  • Greece
  • Turkey

Aegean pushbacks: 'They threw all our belongings and phones into the sea'

Three months ago, 28-year-old Stephanie* flew from Kinshasa to Istanbul to join her husband. To reach Europe, the young woman took a boat from Turkey. She said that her boat was turned back by the Greek coast guard, and that she and the other migrants were threatened with guns. This is her story.

From file: A Greek coast guard vessel | Photo: picture-alliance/Zumapress
  • Greece

Greek coast guard rescues 170 migrants near the Peloponnese

The Greek coast guard says it has picked up nearly 170 migrants near the Peloponnese peninsula. People smugglers operating between Turkey and Greece often put migrants on unseaworthy boats.

The Greek coast guard reported that Turkish vessels tried to escort migrant boats into Greek territorial waters | Source: Screenshot from the website of the Hellenic Coast Guard, April 2, 2021
  • Greece
  • Turkey

Greece claims Turkey tried to push migrant boats into Europe

Greece has accused Turkey of trying to help migrant boats in the Aegean Sea to reach Europe. The Greek coast guard claimed that in one incident, two Turkish patrol vessels "tried to push" a migrant dinghy into Greek territory.

Reports of alleged pushbacks in the Aegean Sea have been mounting over 2020 | Photo: AegeanBoatReport
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Croatia
  • Greece

UNHCR reprimands Greece over more reports of pushbacks at sea

The UN refugee agency UNHCR says it has observed "several hundred cases" of suspected pushbacks in the Aegean Sea since the beginning of last year. It is stepping up pressure on Greece to investigate the reports.

An abandoned life jacket in the Aegean Sea in 2016 | Photo: Picture-alliance/AP Photo/L.Pitarakis
  • Afghanistan
  • Greece
  • Turkey

Afghan migrant, charged with endangering his son's life in Greece, speaks out

A 25-year-old Afghan man, father to a five-year-old child who died in November in an attempt to reach the Greek island of Samos from Turkey by boat, has spoken out about being charged with endangering his son's life by the Greek authorities and why he is bringing a counter-case against the Greek coast guard.

From file: Migrants arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos, March 2020 | Photo: Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis
  • Greece

Greece: One man dead, 27 rescued on Lesbos

A man is believed to have frozen to death trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday. 27 others, mostly from Somalia, landed on the island and were rescued after spending a night in the open.

From file: A migrant is rescued by the Hellenic Coast Guard after trying to reach Greece by boat from Turkey | Photo: Reuters
  • Greece

Dead body found after migrant boat accident off Rhodes

At least one man has drowned after a migrant dinghy sank off the Greek island of Rhodes. Coast guard authorities said the boat had set off from the Turkish coast.

Greek police officers on their way to approach two migrants | Photo: EPA/Dimitris Tosidis
  • Greece

Greek authorities arrest father of dead migrant child

A father whose son drowned on the weekend in an attempt to reach Samos by boat was arrested on suspicion of endangering a life. News agency AP reported that father and son were among a group of 25 migrants who set off from Turkey to the Greek Aegean Islands.

A photo taken from the NGO Aegean Boat Report which accuses the Greek coast guard of mass migrant pushbacks | Credit: NGO Aegean Boat Report
  • Greece

Greece's coast guard accused of mass migrant pushbacks

An NGO, the Aegean Boat Report (ABR), has accused the Greek coast guard of pushing back 197 migrants at sea last week.

Reports of alleged pushbacks in the Aegean Sea have been mounting over 2020 | Photo: AegeanBoatReport
  • Greece
  • Turkey

Report: EU border agency 'involved in illegal asylum pushbacks'

An investigation by a number of European media organizations has found that Frontex, Europe's border security agency, has been involved in several illegal "pushbacks" of asylum seekers crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece.

Turkish coast guard officers help carry a woman off a life raft during a rescue operation in the Aegean Sea on Sept. 12, 2020 | Photo: AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
  • Greece
  • Syria
  • Turkey

Greece accused of pushing migrants back out to sea

The allegations against the Greek coast guard come as Greece accuses Turkey of aiding human traffickers move migrants and refugees to Greece.

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