migrants

Migrants and refugees flow to the island of Chios posted a significant increase in the last three days in comparison with the islands of Lesvos and Samos. One hundred and fifty-three persons arrived on Chios, 53 on Lesvos and only...

Coast Guard spotted early Saturday a dinghy with migrants and refugees off the coasts of the island of Oinousses the dinghy apparently was directed by two traffickers. A pursuit followed and the two traffickers managed to reach the coast where...

European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos on Friday warned that EU-Turkey deal must be kept, otherwise the neighboring country would unleash waves of migrants to Greece. Avramopoulos spoke with President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos stressing that the European Union-Ankara...

Greek Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas on Friday said that refugees will not be transferred from the islands to the mainland yet because that would jeopardize the Turkey-European Union agreement. Mouzalas spoke in parliament in the aftermath of the gas explosion...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again threatened the European Unions-member states that Turkey is in a position to open the floodgates and allow millions of migrants to enter the EU, according to Reuters. The President made this threat on...

Only migrants and refugees who are likely to be granted asylum can be moved from the islands to Greece's mainland, said government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos. The statement came after violent riots broke out on Chios island, where part of the...

Deputy Migration Policy Minister Ioannis Balafas said the government wants to close the camp in Souda on the Greek island of Chios and transfer refugees and migrants in a new camp outside the town. “We do not want to create...

More fires broke out and new violent fights took place for the second night in a row at the Souda migrant camp on Chios island on Thursday night. The incidents started when two petrol bombs were hurled inside the camp...

Violent, destructive riots that erupted late on Wednesday night at the Souda migrant camp on Chios island resulted in several arrests of migrants. According to local residents who spoke on ERT Aegean television station, the incident started around 11:00 pm...

Four of the 19 migrants located on Wednesday in a dinghy 15 miles east of the island of Thassos are dead, the doctor who examined them at the port of Kavala said. The search and rescue operation started on Tuesday...