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| Turkish coastguard halts migrants as preparations for EU deal begin |
| 2016-04-03 |
| [REUTERS] ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's coastguard stopped nearly 200 people trying to reach Greece on Saturday, underlining the challenge security forces face in convincing A controversial European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... deal to return refugees and A group of 118 Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... ns, Syrians, Iranian and Lebanese people were halted on Saturday as they headed to the Greek island of Chios from Cesme in Turkey in two dinghies, local news agency Dogan reported. Another group of 63 were stopped as they attempted to travel to Greece's Lesbos from the Turkish coastal town of Dikili. Rooters Television pictures showed the men, women and kiddies sitting in a white tent after being caught, shielding their faces, with a heap of orange life-jackets piled outside. Disagreements over how to deal with hundreds of thousands of Turkey agreed last month to take back all |
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