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Turkey repeated constant claims that the Greek Coast Guard has pushed back toward Turkey - which let them be sent by human traffickers - more refugees and migrants, this time off the island of Lesbos.
Turkey’s pro-government The Daily Sabah newspaper said Turkish security forces had video footage they asserted proved the pushback, although it s unclear, nor did it state that Turkey s Coast Guard let human traffickers send them.
That s in violation of an essentially-suspended 2016 swap deal with the European Union under which Turkey is supposed to contain 4. 4 million refugees and migrants who went there fleeing war and strife and economic hardships in their homelands, especially Afghanistan and Syria.