First migrant boat arrived in Turkey

First migrant boat arrived in Turkey

World April 4, 2016 08:35

lesbos - 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.

Two boats left earlier in the day from the Greek island of Lesbos. The first of these, 131 migrants docked in the Turkish port of Dikili. Most asylum seekers on the boats were from Pakistan and Bangladesh, said a spokeswoman for the European border agency Frontex. Every migrant traveled a Frontex agents in civilian clothes with. As a precaution were units of the Greek riot police on board.

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