The Greek Coast Guard announced today the recovery of the body of a child and the rescue of 47 refugees, and one of the migrants spoke about the threats of the Greeks to them, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed the need for Europe to bear the burden.
A Greek police official said the deployment and rescue operation took place after the boat capsized for refugees heading from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos.
The official reported that at least a thousand migrants had arrived in the Greek East Aegean Islands since Sunday morning.
In this context, two Turkish security sources told Reuters that a Syrian migrant who was trying to cross from Turkey to Greece died today from his wounds after Greek security forces intervened to prevent the crossing of migrants who gathered at the border.
Since last Thursday, more than ten thousand immigrants tried to pass through the land borders, as guards fired tear gas at the crowds that were trapped in the area between the two border fences between the two countries.
For his part, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that he had received several phone calls from European Union leaders to prevent the influx of refugees, but stressed that the refugee issue had been resolved, and that Turkey would not close the doors again to refugees towards Europe.
Erdogan announced last Saturday that he would open his country's borders with the European Union to allow migrants on Turkish soil to cross into Europe, in conjunction with the intensification of battles between the Syrian opposition backed by Turkey and the regime forces in northwestern Syria.
Kill or return
In this context, the Anatolia Agency quoted a migrant who failed to cross into Greek territory, that the Greek coast guard surrounded their boat in the sea and their choice between returning to Turkey or killing.
A rubber boat, carrying about forty African, Iranian and Syrian immigrants, set out from Bodrum, in the Turkish state of Mugla, towards the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
When the migrant boat approached the coast of Greece, the Coast Guard teams confronted it and prevented it from reaching land.
One of the migrants who disembarked from the boat - to the journalists on the Turkish mainland - that the Greek Coast Guard shot in the air and their choice between returning to the Turkish lands or killing them.
He added that the Greek coast guard boats went around the boat of the migrants, and formed waves that moistened the migrants.
The flow of migrants began on the western borders of Turkey, starting Thursday evening, after circulating news that Ankara would not hinder the movement of migrants towards Europe.