Greek Council for Refugees
Diplomacy
Greek Refugee Council: Detention of Turkish Army Officer 'Illegal'
The NGO Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) denounced on Monday what they described as an illegal detention of the Turkish officer who was granted asylum by an independent committee for refugees, saying whoever ordered it could be prosecuted.
Earlier in...
Greece
Gay Syrian Asylum Seeker to Be Sent Back to Turkey Under New EU Deal
A gay Syrian's migrant asylum petition was rejected by Greece last Thursday, and he will be sent back to Turkey.
Sources told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) that the 46-year-old man had arrived on the Greek island of Lesvos after March 20, 2015...
Greece
Greek NGO's Says Turkish Dissident Kidnapped
Groups helping Turkish activist Bulut Yayla apply for asylum in Greece said that he was abducted from an Athens neighborhood on May 30 and they believe he may have been illicitly returned to Istanbul where he said he had...