Greek authorities say nearly 140 migrants have reached Greece’s Aegean Sea islands in boats from Turkey
Nearly 140 migrants have reached Greece’s Aegean Sea islands in boats from Turkey, Greek authorities said Thursday, including 51 people who made landfall on the high-end resort of Mykonos. The new arrivals come amid a steady rise in migration to the European Union country, which officials mostly attribute to better summer sailing conditions.
While Greece was once the main entry point to the EU for people seeking a better life in the wealthy bloc, its Mediterranean neighbor Italy now has nearly seven times more arrivals.A Greek coast guard statement said a motor yacht that had landed 42 men, eight women and a child on Mykonos Wednesday was stopped hours later off the eastern Aegean island of Patmos. Three men on it were arrested on suspicion of belonging to a migrant smuggling group based in neighboring Turkey. The coast guard also said 30 migrants, including 6 children, were found Wednesday on the coast of Evia — an island near the Greek mainland that has seen a recent increase despite being relatively far from Turkey. A coast guard statement Thursday quoted the migrants as saying they had been brought by a speedboat that headed back to Turkey.For years, smuggling gangs avoided the short crossing from Turkey to eastern Aegean islands such as Lesbos and Samos due to stronger Greek marine patrols, preferring the longer route round southern Greece to Italy. Human rights groups have repeatedly charged that Greek authorities also secretly deported migrants back to Turkey — a claim Athens strongly denies.to have cost hundreds of lives in JuneNow, dozens of migrants reach, or are rescued off, the eastern Greek islands nearly daily, and the coast guard said 58 people were taken off crippled boats in two separate cases off Samos Thursday. More than 17,300 people have reached Greece, mostly by sea, so far this year, according to United Nations figures, compared to 19,000 for the whole of 2022.___
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