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Friday, April 15, 2016

Aid groups urge halt of Turkey returns, Greek detentions under migration deal

[People wait in a line for food at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni]By Dasha Afanasieva and Gabriela Baczynska ISTANBUL/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Deportations of refugees and migrants to Turkey and the detention of asylum-seekers on Greek islands must stop, three aid groups said on Friday, citing fears for human rights raised by an EU-Turkey deal to curb an influx of people into Europe. Determined to turn the tables on Europe's acute migration crisis, Brussels and Berlin have voiced satisfaction with the first results of the scheme under which Turkey is to take back all people arriving undocumented on Greek islands from its soil.


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