Greece Begins Sending Migrants Back to Turkey Under EU Accord
- Boats carrying 202 undocumented immirants reached Turkey
- Returns to continue for those not entitled to asylum in EU
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Greece sent back the first batch of migrants to Turkey on Monday, implementing an accord signed in March to stem the flows of refugees into the European Union.
A total of 202 immigrants, mostly men of Pakistani origin, left the Greek islands of Chios and Mytilini, according to a spokeswoman at the Greek Prime Minister’s press office. Two of them were Syrians who asked to return to Turkey for “family reasons.”