[A doctor carries a child as migrants disembark from the Medecins Sans Frontieres vessel at Pozzallo's harbour]By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - Two ferries left Greece for Turkey on Tuesday with 18 migrants on board, as a government spokesman said Athens was doing all it could to process returnees under a deal with Turkey intended to stem a huge refugee influx into Europe. Just over 340 people have so far been returned to Turkey under the accord, agreed with the European Union in March after more than 1 million people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and beyond reached the continent last year. Giorgos Kyritsis, government spokesman for the migration crisis, said Athens was "not cutting corners (and)... not delaying." "We're sticking to the legal procedure so that the asylum process is completed in the best possible way," he said.
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