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Migrants, Ankara against Athens: “7 handcuffed into the sea”

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The Turkish Minister of the Interior, Suleyman Soylu, accused the Greek Coast Guard of leaving seven migrants at sea after beating them, without a lifeboat or life jackets. Three of the migrants were found dead off Cesme, three others were rescued and searches continue for the seventh person missing.

Soylu posted the video of the rescue operations on his Twitter profile accusing Greece of “mistreating 7 migrants”, of “taking their belongings, tying their hands with plastic handcuffs and throwing them overboard without life jackets and boats “. The coast guard of Athens has denied the Turkish reconstruction. “We do not treat migrants or people in danger in this way,” Greek coast guard spokesman Nikolaos Kokkalas told Reuters.

Exchanges of accusations between Turkey and Greece on the management of migrants intensified in the years after the 2015 crisis when thousands of people fleeing mainly from the Middle East tried to reach Europe via Turkey and then Greece. . The agreement between Brussels and Ankara signed in 2016, which commits Turkey to detain migrants on its territory in exchange for around 6 billion euros, has limited departures both by land and by sea, but has forced thousands of people to live under precarious conditions in crowded camps or makeshift housing in both Turkey and Greece. Ankara would now like an update of the agreement with Brussels which also includes a process of re-entry of Syrians to Syria, a country still at war.

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