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Friday, April 22, 2016

Migrant flow from Turkey to Greece picking up again

[File photo of a Turkish Coast Guard fast rigid-hulled inflatable boat tows a dinghy filled with refugees and migrants in the Turkish territorial waters of the North Aegean Sea]Migrants in boats are landing in Greece at the rate of about 150 a day from Turkey after a hiatus, indicating that the "hermetic sealing" of this route to Europe appears to be over, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Friday. In the last three days we had 150 people arriving each day... It does show that route might be picking back up," IOM spokesman Joel Millman told a Geneva news briefing.


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