Greece Sees Fewer Migrant Arrivals From Turkey, Partly Due to Pandemic, Minister Says

Greece Sees Fewer Migrant Arrivals From Turkey, Partly Due to Pandemic, Minister Says
A group of 85 asylum seekers, including families with children with serious health problems, departs from Greece for Germany on July 24, 2020. Milos Bicanski/Getty Images
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ATHENS—Greece has seen fewer migrants and refugees arriving from Turkey, numbering in the hundreds in the last four months, mainly due to increased border checks and partly due to the coronavirus pandemic, a government minister said on Tuesday.

But Turkey is “a difficult and unpredictable neighbor that controls a pool of four million migrants and refugees”, Alternate Migration Minister George Koumoutsakos told Reuters.