ATHENS: Over a dozen migrant boats landed on Greece's Lesbos island within minutes of each other on Thursday in the first such mass arrival from neighbouring Turkey in three years, officials said, prompting Greece to summon Turkey's ambassador.
Sixteen boats carrying about 650 people reached Lesbos on Thursday, 13 of those in under an hour, according to police and the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias summoned the Turkish ambassador on Friday to"express Greece's deep discontent" with the rise in flows from Turkey, diplomatic sources said. The ambassador said Turkey was"committed" to the EU-Turkey deal and that its policy had not changed, the sources said.More than a million migrants and refugees, many fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, arrived in the European Union in 2015.
Moria, which has spilled over to an adjoining olive grove, now holds more than 10,000 people but all of the country's five island facilities are overcrowded.
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