The Turkish Coast Guard on Sunday rescued 60 irregular migrants who had been illegally pushed again into Turkish territorial waters by Greek authorities.
Thirty migrants had been discovered stranded in a rubber boat within the Aegean Sea off the coast of Aydin province, the Coast Guard Command stated on its web site.
Another 30 migrants had been rescued from a rubber boat off the Ayvacik district in Canakkale province, the Coast Guard Command stated in a separate assertion.
The migrants had been taken to the provincial migration authorities, it added.
Human rights teams and media retailers have ceaselessly reported on unlawful pushbacks and different human rights breaches by Greek authorities. Survivors of a migrant boat sinking final month the place 300 to 600 migrant are feared drowned, have blamed the lethal incident on a Greek Coast Guard boat making an attempt to tow the migrant boat into Italian territorial waters.
Türkiye and international rights teams have repeatedly condemned Greece’s unlawful follow of pushing again asylum seekers and stated it violates humanitarian values and worldwide regulation by endangering the lives of weak migrants, together with girls and kids.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
