国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / World

More migrants expelled to Turkey

By Agencies in Athens | China Daily | Updated: 2016-04-09 07:47

Greece deported a second batch of more than a hundred migrants to Turkey on Friday and Germany announced a sharp drop in asylum claims, after the European Union toughened efforts to end its worst migration crisis since World War II.

A police source on the Greek island of Lesbos said 45 Pakistani men had been put on a Turkish ferry, despite efforts by activists to stop the second expulsion operation under an EU-Turkey deal that has been slammed by rights groups.

A small group of activists who jumped into the water and clung onto the ferry's anchor were pried off by coast guard officers and briefly detained.

More migrants expelled to Turkey

A child cries as migrants clash with Greek policemen as they try to open the border fence at a makeshift camp at border with Macedonia on Thursday. Marko Djurica / Reuters

Some 30 protesters also gathered at Lesbos' port, chanting "Stop deportations", "EU, shame on you" and "Freedom for the refugees".

In Germany, Europe's top destination for refugees, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere announced that asylum applications had dropped 66 percent in March after a string of border closures in the Balkans halted the influx from Greece.

The highly disputed deal was designed to discourage people from making the perilous Aegean crossing from Turkey to Greece in flimsy boats, by presenting them with the threat of deportation straight back to where they came from.

For every Syrian refugee sent back to Turkey, one Syrian is supposed to be resettled in Europe. In return for its cooperation, Turkey has been promised $6.8 billion in financial aid to help the 2.7 million Syrian refugees it is hosting, and visa-free European travel for Turks by June.

Erdogan's warning

The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the EU on Thursday that Ankara would drop the deal if Brussels fails to live up to its side of the bargain. "There are precise conditions. If the European Union does not take the necessary steps, then Turkey will not implement the agreement," he said.

Turkey's long-stalled accession process to join the EU is also supposed to be re-energized under the accord.

Turkish coast guard operations to intercept migrants and clamp down on people-smugglers have helped sharply reduce the numbers arriving in Europe, with more than 65,000 people stopped from crossing the Aegean Sea since January, according to state media.

Erdogan also argued Turkey deserves something in return for its commitment to Syrian refugees, on whom it has spent some $10 billion since the Syrian conflict began in 2011.

"Some 3 million people are being fed on our budget," the president said.

"There have been promises, but nothing has come for the moment."

AFP - AP

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
新宾| 冷水江市| 崇明县| 揭阳市| 临颍县| 东海县| 双江| 尼玛县| 南阳市| 正镶白旗| 庄浪县| 商水县| 扎赉特旗| 绿春县| 上犹县| 石柱| 博白县| 新绛县| 若尔盖县| 木兰县| 越西县| 四子王旗| 红原县| 山阴县| 金堂县| 体育| 枣阳市| 中卫市| 灵璧县| 平果县| 乐亭县| 福建省| 澎湖县| 磐石市| 祁东县| 澄江县| 肃宁县| 三门县| 云梦县| 丹巴县| 商洛市|