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Human rights teams and media retailers have regularly reported on unlawful pushbacks and different human rights breaches by Greek authorities.
(Turkish Coast Guard Command / AA Archive)
The Turkish Coast Guard have rescued 152 irregular migrants who have been pushed again by Greece in defiance of worldwide regulation.
Teams have been dispatched off the coast of Bodrum district in southwestern Mugla province on Tuesday after the company obtained data that there have been irregular migrants in rubber boats. A complete of 65 individuals have been rescued, it mentioned.
Separately, coast guard groups rescued 29 migrants after receiving data that there have been teams of irregular migrants in rubber boats off the coast of Aliaga district in İzmir province.
In the northwestern province of Canakkale, 35 migrants who have been pushed again by Greece who have been rescued off the coast of Ayvacik district.
Another 23 irregular migrants in rubber boats have been rescued by native coast guard groups rushed to the assistance of 23 irregular migrants in rubber boats off the coast of Mugla’s Datca district within the Aegean.
Türkiye has been a key transit level for irregular migrants desirous to cross into Europe to start out new lives, particularly these fleeing battle and persecution.
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Greece violating worldwide regulation
Ankara and international rights teams have repeatedly condemned Greece’s unlawful follow of pushing again irregular migrants, saying it violates humanitarian values and worldwide regulation by endangering the lives of weak migrants, together with girls and youngsters.
In one other operation in Türkiye’s southeastern province of Gaziantep, seven irregular migrants have been held in an operation in Sehitkamil district, in keeping with a press release by police.
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Source: TRTWorld and companies
