At least 1,000 migrants have reached Greece’s Eastern Aegean islands since Sunday morning, Greek police say. “This movement is guided and encouraged by Turkey,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas told reporters after a national security meeting in Athens. He called the surge of migrants at the border “an active, serious, severe and asymmetrical threat to the national security of the country”. Thirty-two others were rescued in the seas off Farmakonissi, a small island close to Turkey, the coast guard said. The 2016 agreement halted most crossings between Greece and Turkey, although there are more than 40,000 migrants on the Aegean islands in severely overcrowded camps.

Source: Pakistan Today March 02, 2020 11:26 UTC