{"id":91936,"date":"2022-08-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/13446\/"},"modified":"2022-08-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:00:00","slug":"13446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/13446","title":{"rendered":"Official: 25,000 Asylum-Seekers Kept Out of Greece in August"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greek authorities have prevented some 25,000 people from entering the country illegally in less than a month, a government official said Wednesday, accusing neighbor and regional rival Turkey of channeling asylum-seekers toward Greece.<\/span><\/p>\n

That figure is more than three times the total number of asylum-seekers who have made it into Greece in the entire year to date, according to data from the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR.<\/span><\/p>\n

Takis Theodorikakos, Greece’s minister for public order, said the pressure at the land and sea borders with Turkey \u201cis developing into a very particular threat to Greece’s integrity and security.\u201d\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDuring the month of August alone so far, 25,000 irregular migrants have tried to illegally enter through the Greek-Turkish borders,\u201dTheodorikakos said in an interview with private Antenna TV. \u201cIt’s a very large number.\u201d\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Theodorikakos didn’t expand on how Greece stopped the entries, or provide figures for previous months. Turkish officials, and international human rights groups, have repeatedly accused Greece of illegally returning asylum-seekers who make it onto Greek territory without allowing them to make their asylum bids. Athens has denied that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Theodorikakos spoke a day after the government decided to extend a fence along the land border with Turkey to deal with increased immigration flows.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s obvious that the Turkish side is making use of these unhappy people in a systematic, methodical and complex way,\u201dTheodorikakos said Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that many of the migrants heading to Greece are Syrians and claimed that they “are forced (to try to enter Greece) as they appear to be presented with a dilemma by Turkish authorities \u201d\u201d either to return to Syria or to move on to Greece.\u201d\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n

Relations between Greece and Turkey are tense over immigration and undersea energy exploration rights.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thousands of people from the Middle East, Asia and Africa seeking a better life in the European Union head to Greece from Turkey \u201d\u201d which is host to about 4 million refugees \u201d\u201d every year. Most then try to move on to Europe’s more prosperous heartland.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greek authorities have prevented some 25,000 people from entering the country illegally in less than a month, a government official said Wednesday, accusing neighbor and regional rival Turkey of channeling asylum-seekers toward Greece. That figure is more than three times the total number of asylum-seekers who have made it into Greece in the entire year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-91936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}