{"id":191479,"date":"2022-05-24T00:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=191479"},"modified":"2022-05-24T00:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:32:48","slug":"greece-prevents-hundreds-from-entering-by-sea-from-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/24\/greece-prevents-hundreds-from-entering-by-sea-from-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece prevents hundreds from entering by sea from Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ATHENS, Greece , May 23 (AP) \u2014 Greece\u2019s coast guard on Monday prevented at least 590 migrants from illegally entering the country\u2019s waters in the eastern Aegean Sea from neighboring Turkey in assorted vessels, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A coast guard statement said the migrants were believed to have been aboard five sailing yachts and four inflatable dinghies that were spotted and turned back before reaching Greek waters in a series of separate incidents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It said the larger vessels are believed to have been planning to sail past Greece to fellow European Union member Italy, following what has developed in recent years into a key smuggling route.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said that Turkish authorities were notified to pick up the passengers on the vessels, as they had started off from Turkey\u2019s shores. It said three of the yachts returned to the Turkish coast of their own volition, and all the other migrants were eventually taken back by Turkish patrol vessels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Greece remains a major destination for people fleeing conflict or poverty who seek a better life in the EU. In recent years, stricter policing of Greece\u2019s eastern sea border with longtime regional rival Turkey has drastically reduced the numbers, which had reached a record of about 1 million people in 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece , May 23 (AP) \u2014 Greece\u2019s coast guard on Monday prevented at least 590 migrants from illegally entering the country\u2019s waters in the eastern Aegean Sea from neighboring Turkey in assorted vessels, authorities said. A coast guard statement said the migrants were believed to have been aboard five sailing yachts and four inflatable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-191479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}