Greece to Accelerate Return of Migrants to Turkey as Arrivals Pick Up

World » EU | April 3, 2017, Monday // 11:43
Bulgaria: Greece to Accelerate Return of Migrants to Turkey as Arrivals Pick Up EPA/BGNES

As the inflow of undocumented migrants to the islands of the eastern Aegean rises with the improving weather, the government is planning action to ease the pressure on increasingly overcrowded reception centers, Kathimerini writes.

In the coming days, Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas is expected to issue a circular, banning migrants who appeal against a rejection of their application for political asylum from a voluntary repatriation scheme being run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Meanwhile police on the islands are boosting efforts to locate and detain migrants who face deportation to Turkey in line with an agreement signed last year between Ankara and Brussels.

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