Possibly it happened. Possibly the Turks did it themselves for the propaganda value.
[AnNahar] In the latest dispute about so-called "pushbacks" of people seeking refuge in Europe,
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...'s rescue of two of the
"Greek coastiess battered seven
The
"The search for the last missing person continues," the
The images tweeted by Soylu showed one of the apparent survivors saying in rudimentary
"They took our phones and our money, then beat us," the man says in the clip.
Greece denies violating the law while protecting its coasts.
A probe into allegations of illegal migrant pushbacks on the Greece-Turkey maritime border concluded this month that the EU's border agency Frontex needed to make "urgent improvements" in its transparency.
The final report said poor reporting practises meant that Sherlocks could not clearly determine if pushbacks had occurred in five of the cases under review.
Pushbacks prevent asylum-seekers from making claims for protected status, and if practised indiscriminately can constitute a violation of core EU human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
laws and the 1951 Geneva Convention.
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi told AFP this week that his country protects its borders "in accordance to European regulations and international law."
"We haven't returned boats. We have prevented boats from entering European and Greek territory, but this is something allowed by the regulations," Mitarachi said.