150 refugees on their way back to Turkey

- 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.

In total 150 people Monday should be returned to Turkey. Activists jumped into the water at the port to prevent the departure of the vessel.

Refugees who arrived in Greece after March 20, according to an agreement between Turkey and the European Union are sent back to Turkey. still they can submit an asylum application must be considered first. Because processing them takes a long time due to lack of staff, since April 4 just returned around three hundred people.