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Greek Navy Throws Illegal Immigrants Into Sea


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Illegal migrants rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard in the Aegean Sea claimed Greek officials had thrown them overboard. If their story is true, it's an international scandal. It also calls attention to another hotspot for immigrants trying to reach Europe.

Greek authorities have denied knowledge of an alleged incident in which Greek officials threw illegal immigrants into the Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey. On Tuesday morning, some 31 illegals were plucked out of the sea near the Turkish coastal city of Izmir. They claimed that the Greek Coast Guard had thrown them into the water. They did so, said one survivor, "without even asking if we could swim," according to Turkey's state-owned Anatolia news agency. Six people have reportedly drowned; three are missing. Greek officials denied the charges in general terms. "We never throw people into the sea," said Haris Bournias, a Greek Coast Guard commander on the island of Chios. Turkey's coastline is a major transit area for illegal immigrants trying to reach Europe, and Bournias said smugglers regularly set immigrants adrift in little boats without lights. "Many people drown that way in the straits," said Bournias, and in fact early reports in the Turkish media claimed the survivors had washed ashore after their boat sank off the Turkish coast.

Still, on Wednesday Turkey's Foreign Ministry lodged an official complaint through diplomatic channels in Athens. "Greek authorities have been increasingly dumping some groups of illegal migrants in Turkish waters in violation of" a bilateral agreement to return them, said ministry spokesman Namik Tan in a statement, adding that "the mentioned practice cannot continue." According to reports, the survivors included Palestinians, Lebanese, Tunisians, Iraqis and one Algerian. Residents on the coast of Izmir had called the Turkish Coast Guard on Tuesday morning after being awakened by barking dogs and cries for help. The suvivors claimed that they had set off from Izmir province in a boat and landed on Chios. But they were captured by uniformed Greeks who placed them on a Coast Guard ship that carried them back toward Izmir, where they were tossed into the sea. "Two of our friends drowned in front of our eyes," Muhammedi Alti, a Lebanese national, told the Anatolia news agency. "I still can't believe what we have lived through ... We had thought that human rights would be more valuable in Europe."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,439761,00.html

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Oh my, I doubt this is true. well I hope not.

I hope it's not true as well.. It very well could have been drug runners or illegals or what have you, that when caught jumped ship and couldn't be rescued? If the the Greeks really wanted to be rid of these guys they wouldn't have left them floating to be found ! Fishy ! To add, once these guys were found they had a lawyer to make this accusation, because they want in and they will lie to get in. What better way then this to stay out of the country you are fleeing.

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This is terrible... what a tragedy

C'mon admit it though, who didn't laugh when they read the title..?

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This is terrible... what a tragedy

C'mon admit it though, who didn't laugh when they read the title..?

Me cause it's just not something i find amusing cause I'm not 12.

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Wow these guys are d*****.

I know but I don't think they deserved to be throw into the sea.

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I know but I don't think they deserved to be throw into the sea.

I wasn't talking about the immigrants....

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I wasn't talking about the immigrants....

yes the people who threw them in were 'd****' or d********..

(smirks)

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Go Greeks! ^_^ I love their heavy handed approach to blood sucking leeches if this is true.

They certainly have a more robust immigration policy than us Brits... ^_^

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They certainly have a more robust immigration policy than us Brits... ^_^

It's a bit flashy, but effective ehh well except for the guys that lived, or the guys that failed to make sure threr dead! hmmm

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It's a bit flashy, but effective ehh well except for the guys that lived, or the guys that failed to make sure threr dead! hmmm

They need to leave a few alive to pass the message on

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Oh my, I doubt this is true. well I hope not.

Hmmm.. there are two parts in this story... the first is that Der Spiegel is one of the high regarded magazines, they seldom got a story wrong (as far as I remember once since 1955) so there must be something there. The question is what, and so far we only have the one word against the other. I have someone checking the story... keep ya posted.

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Hmmm.. there are two parts in this story... the first is that Der Spiegel is one of the high regarded magazines, they seldom got a story wrong (as far as I remember once since 1955) so there must be something there. The question is what, and so far we only have the one word against the other. I have someone checking the story... keep ya posted.

Thanks, questionmark. just put the full report on my desk when your done. :P

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This is terrible... what a tragedy

C'mon admit it though, who didn't laugh when they read the title..?

Im with you BillyHill, I had to laugh, its a shame the British Government doesnt do the same, mind you if the British Government done the same we'd have floating Islands of Immigrants

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Thanks, questionmark. just put the full report on my desk when your done. :P

Sorry, not doing it for you.... but it gave me a good occasion to ask certain joker in Athens why I learn this from UM and not from him.

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Hmmm.. there are two parts in this story... the first is that Der Spiegel is one of the high regarded magazines, they seldom got a story wrong (as far as I remember once since 1955) so there must be something there. The question is what, and so far we only have the one word against the other. I have someone checking the story... keep ya posted.

Two copies for me please Questionmark... and can you bind them, rather than stapling them please ? :D

Meow Purr.

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Two copies for me please Questionmark... and can you bind them, rather than stapling them please ? :D

Meow Purr.

see above .... :innocent:

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Two copies for me please Questionmark... and can you bind them, rather than stapling them please ? :D

Meow Purr.

Yes, and a next of kind report along with LOTS of pictures. I'll be expecting the 44 page report on my desk monday morning.

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I'll also be expecting the a report on my desk, monday morning as well.

Along with hard evidence.. please...such as a dead 'water bloated' immigrant, that will do just fine.

Thanks.

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Go Greeks! ^_^ I love their heavy handed approach to blood sucking leeches if this is true.

The Greeks think of everything...

From democracy to this. We have a lot to learn from the Greeks still, lets hope we catch on to their methods quick. Just imagine... A world where no more illegal immigrants leech off your land and your taxes.

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