Another campaigner, Idil Gokber, from Refugee Volunteers of Izmir, said Europe needed to help Turkey with its refugee burden... READ MORE›
Greece is to start returning migrants to Turkey under an EU deal, despite fears over a lack of preparations and criticism from campaigners... READ MORE›
On Monday more asylum seekers landed in Greece from Turkey 228 than were deported in the opposite direction 202 ... READ MORE›
But even as Europe was sending people back to Turkey aboard ferries, migrants on rafts continued to arrive in Greece... READ MORE›
The numbers were still far shy of commitments to distribute about 160,000 asylum seekers among European Union countries... READ MORE›
Last year, more than one million migrants and refugees arrived in the EU by boat from Turkey to Greece... READ MORE›
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR and rights groups have said the deal between the European Union and Turkey lacks legal safeguards... READ MORE›
Another boat carrying a larger group of migrants was due to leave Lesbos later in the morning, Greek state TV reported... READ MORE›
Refugee crisis EU deportations to Turkey from Lesbos continue despite protests... READ MORE›
The coast guard and gendarmerie rescued 12 people from the sea and the rocks on the Ayvalik coastline... READ MORE›
Gauri van Gulik, deputy Europe director at Amnesty International, said that she feared refugees fleeing war and persecution would eventually be forced to go to Turkey... READ MORE›
These asylum seekers were smuggled to the Greek island from Turkey before Europe shut the door to new arrivals on March 20... READ MORE›
More than 3,300 migrants and refugees are on Lesbos, Greece's third-biggest island and home to many Greek refugees who fled Turkey in the 1920s... READ MORE›
In return for re-admitting migrants, Ankara was promised more financial aid an visa-free travel in the EU for its citizens... READ MORE›
At least 33 migrants drowned on January 30 when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece... READ MORE›
Protests against the presence of refugees take place in Greece and Turkey as EU deal is about to get implemented... READ MORE›
For many of the nearly 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Europe is just too far away now... READ MORE›
Our correspondent Mark Lowen has been to the town of Dikili in Turkey, which will receive the first migrants to be returned... READ MORE›
The first group of returnees from Greece were brought from Lesbos and Chios to the Turkey's Aegean coastal town of Dikili on Monday... READ MORE›
Removal of 202 people from Greece to Turkey passes unexpectedly peacefully but observers say these were just the easy cases... READ MORE›
Under the accord, migrants and refugees who cross the Aegean Sea illegally are sent back to Turkey... READ MORE›
Some were expected to pass through Dikili, returning from Lesbos, one of the closest Greek islands to Turkey... READ MORE›
Activists hold banners Monday as they protest against the return of migrants to Turkey, at the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos... READ MORE›
Residents of Bademli village, across the Greek Island of Lesbos, said they had noticed a significant reduction in the illegal flow of migrants on Sunday morning... READ MORE›
Turkey's interior minister, Efkan Ala, was quoted by the pro-government newspaper Aksam as saying 500 people were expected in Turkey from Greece on Monday... READ MORE›
But critics of the plan say refugees are being callously relocated to dangerous parts of southern Turkey, near the Syrian border... READ MORE›
Less than 24 hours before Greece is due to begin returning migrants to Turkey, little sign of preparation is evident on Lesbos... READ MORE›
The coast guard and gendarmerie rescued 12 people from the sea and the rocks on the Ayvalik coastline... READ MORE›
The Europe Union began deporting migrants to Turkey on Monday as part of a new plan to deal with its refugee crisis... READ MORE›
Authorities have reportedly detained about 4,000 migrants and refugees on Greek islands since the one in, one out deal with Turkey came into effect March 20... READ MORE›
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