He adds, “Asylum seekers fleeing most countries today can not obtain effective refugee protection in Turkey”.
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Bratislava has instead agreed to welcome 149 Christian refugees from Iraq on a voluntary basis, Interior Minister Robert Kalinak said Tuesday.
The flow of people across the Mediterranean is fluctuating with the weather conditions.
In a snapshot of the global span of the refugee crisis, those rescued included nationals of Myanmar, Pakistan, Iran, Mali, Afghanistan, Syria, Morocco and Iraq.
The migrants attempted to cross the border from Greece through a creek at a point not closed by the fence before Macedonian police pushed them back, according to AP.
Reacting to a story in the Financial Times, Ioannis Mouzalas told reporters that Wednesday that no official threat has been made to eject Greece from Europe’s borderless Schengen area. Diplomats and European Union officials say some governments have raised the possibility informally but it would be a largely symbolic move, with little impact on migration.
& as we saw once we joined Greek Coast Guard boat patrols on the Aegean, Turkish human-smugglers are operating brazenly on the waters.
“In the wake of this weekend’s EU-Turkey migration talks, it’s a stain on the EU’s conscience too”, said Andrew Gardner, Amnesty’s Turkey researcher.
Turkey’s state-run news agency and the Associated Press said the refugees, some of whom were trying to hide in olive groves, were detained in a sweep in Ayvacik, in Canakkale province on Monday as they prepared to make their way to Greece by boat.
Claiming there will be “huge pressure” on countries like Hungary and others to take part, Orban said: ‘This secret agreement exists and we will be confronted by it in the coming days’.
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Germany and France threw their weight behind a quota system to help redistribute migrants across European Union members, but some of the smaller, less wealthy and more socially conservative countries in the bloc strongly rejected the idea.
