Immigration to Greece

At least 43 people were missing off the southeastern coast of Tunisia after a boat carrying more than 120 migrants sank, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on July 3. 

It will arrive in Greece on Thursday

The Greek security forces, however, are ready in case Turkey tries again to flood Europe with illegal immigrants

The Turkish Foreign Minister said Greece was violating human rights laws

One woman died and another two were rescued from the sea off the eastern Greek island of Lesvos Friday, in an incident involving an inflatable dinghy carrying Somali migrants.

Greece's coast guard said 24 migrants who were located safe on shore early Friday told authorities that three women in their party had fallen into the sea as the boat approached Lesbos, and were still missing.

“Now is the time to come and invest in Greece. Greece is changing”

Greece's Coast Guard said on Tuesday it had fired warning shots against a vessel which it said was carrying migrants from Turkey to Greece.

The incident took place at about 3.40 a.m. on Tuesday, when a private boat with an unspecified number of passengers attempted to sail towards the island of Rhodes.

Greek authorities said Wednesday they have thwarted an attempt by Turkish coast guard vessels to escort a boat carrying migrants into Greek waters off the eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesvos.

A video footage that became viral on social media on March 2 which appeared to show Greek coastguard vessels confronting a dinghy carrying refugees to Greece, as a Syrian man was reportedly shot dead by police on the border.

Three people who authorities believe were the traffickers of the refugees and migrants who attempted to reach Greece last Saturday in a boat that sank near the island of Paxi, western Greece, killing at least 12 people, will appear on Tuesday before an investigative magistrate in the western town of Preveza.