On June 19th, Turkey rescued 56 illegal migrants off Turkey’s Aegean coast, the state-run Anadolu agency reported.
Turkish teams rescued the migrants in a rubber boat near the Dikili district of Turkey’s western province of Izmir, the agency said.
Turkey accused Greece coast guard of pushing the back to Turkey.
In 2020 so far, a total of 11,076 migrants attempted to reach Greece via Turkey’s seas, slightly down from 11,710 over the same period in 2019, according to the latest figures released by the Turkish coast guard.
Alongside these accusations, Anadolu Agency also published alleged photographs showing asylum seekers stranded on the streets of Athens.
They were expelled from the Moria Camp on Lesbos Island in Greece after being granted asylum.
The group seeking shelter at Victoria Square, a public park in the capital, comprises of 66 people, including four pregnant women and children.
“They told us we have to leave Moria Camp. They said: ‘Go to Athens, finish your paper work and go wherever you want after that’,” a refugee said.“I don’t get that. We are refugees. They officially left us here. Imagine that you came to Afghanistan and did not speak the language. And nobody guides you. How would you feel?” said another refugee who spent the night in the street.
A very emotion-filled video was also published of drone footage of migrants flocking the Turkey-Greece border.
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