For the first time in two weeks on Monday refugees from the Greek island of Lesbos returned to Turkey. In the port of Mytilene 45 Pakistanis were brought on board a Turkish ship to be transferred to Dikili, reported the radio station.
Pope Francis takes when he sat dangled from the Greek island of Lesbos ten applicants to Rome. The Greek state is about eight Syrians and two Afghans.
Pope Francis has arrived Saturday on Lesbos. The Church Father will visit the Greek island in the context of the refugee crisis in Europe. Francis is joined by Patriarch Bartholomew I of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Ieronymus II, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church.
Pope Francis brings Saturday a lightning visit to the Greek island of Lesbos. The church father wants the thousands of refugees on the island, mostly Syrians, heart stabbing under the belt.
Pope Francis will be Saturday at his brief visit to Greece lunch with eight refugees. That happens in the refugee camp in Moria on Lesbos, where the asylum seekers are welcomed and registered immediately after arriving on the island.
A ship with 45 migrants aboard Friday left the Greek island of Lesbos and headed for Turkey. It is the second time this week that refugees in Greece are put on the boat to Turkey, as agreed with the EU.
Pope Francis will visit the Greek island of Lesbos refugees on April 16. The trip is intended to stabbing the migrants on the island a shot in the arm and another to settle on the island of the international attention, the Vatican announced Thursday.
The first boat with migrants who traveled Monday morning arrived in recent months to Greece in Turkey. Returning migrants is part of a deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem the flow of refugees to Europe.
Greece has started sending back migrants to Turkey. Two passenger with asylum seekers left early Monday morning from the island of Lesbos, reported a witness. The migrants are transferred to the Turkish port of Dikili.
The return of migrants from Greece to Turkey, which begins Monday, accompanied by draconian security measures. Greek police use for each applicant who is sent back an agent, reports the Greek news agency ANA-MPA on authoritative sources in the government.
Aid agency Doctors Without Borders (MSF) immediately cease all work in Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos, where a camp for refugees is. The organization does not want to cooperate,, a system that is unjust and inhumane. '
Turkish officials on Monday on the Greek island of Lesbos arrived to assist in the implementation of agreements that Turkey and the EU have made on stemming the flow of refugees. The island is about 20 kilometers off the Turkish coast in the Aegean Sea. This is where many refugees within the European Union.
The Turkish authorities Friday stopped more than 1700 refugees who wanted to cross to Greece. It is according to the security services particularly for people who wanted to reach the Greek island of Lesbos. Sixteen people smugglers were arrested.
Certainly ten migrants have drowned when the boat in which they were sunk off the coast of Turkey.
Certainly disappeared twelve people, including five children, have Thursday off the coast of Turkey refugees drowned when the boat capsized and where they were in the waves of the Aegean Sea. The Turkish coastguard managed to rescue 26 people.
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The bodies of 21 refugees washed ashore Tuesday on two places on the Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea. Three of the dead were children.
About 3,600 refugees are transferred Thursday to mainland Greece. These are people who crossed in recent days from Turkey to islands such as Samos, Chios and Lesvos. Most come from Syria and want to western Europe.
In two car accidents off the Turkish coast in the Aegean Sea, six children were drowned.
On the Greek island of Lesbos have been arrested in recent days twelve people. They are suspected of forging passports for refugees. According to Greek media, eight Pakistanis and three Greeks among those arrested.
Fourteen refugees, including seven children, have drowned Wednesday in the Turkish part of the Aegean Sea after their boat sank. Turkish rescue workers managed to catch 27 others alive from the water.
Five Greek ferries have Tuesday morning put a total of more than 6,000 migrants in the ports of Piraeus and Kavala ashore. A majority of these people wants to travel to Western Europe, reported the Greek radio.
After the capsizing of a boat carrying refugees Greek fishermen and members of the coast guard rescued 242 drowned. The major rescue operation off the coast of the island of Lesbos went deep into the night between Wednesday and Thursday through, reported the public broadcaster ERT.
A large fishing boat with many refugees on board Wednesday off the coast of the Greek island Lesbos capsized. According to Greek news channel Skai have the Coast Guard, fishermen from the region and other rescuers saved more than ninety migrants from the water. Whether there are casualties is still unclear.
Greece will receive 5.9 million euros from the European Commission to improve the reception and registration of refugees. The money is sufficient for the next four months to bear the costs of transporting at least 60 000 migrants from the islands to the mainland, the committee will know Monday.
Twelve refugees were killed by the boat on which they sat was wrecked off the coast of Turkey . According to the Turkish coastguard Saturday 23 people were rescued from the sea .
A rescue of the Greek coast guard has turned into a tragedy . A coast guard ship collided with the timber ship of migrants to the island of Lesbos . Seven refugees drowned. Among the victims were three children and a baby .
A Syrian woman gave birth on the beach of Lesvos , just after they had arrived at a rickety dinghy on the Greek island. Mother and son are doing well.
