The Turkish coast guard has seized around 40 Iraqi migrants attempting to sail to the Greek island of Lesbos. Turkey has agreed to increase sea patrols as part of the EU-Turkey deal. The patrols are meant to discourage migrants from trying to reach Europe by sea. 

The second transfer of migrants to Turkey from Greece has been postponed until Friday. A large number of new asylum requests has caused the delay. The first group of people were shipped to Turkey on Monday. They now possibly face deportation back to their home countries.

Thousands of refugees are being detained at the Idomeni camp on the Greece-Macedonia border. The UN agency for refugees says living conditions inside the camp fail to meet humanitarian standards.


"Idomeni is not an official camp from the humanitarian standards, it doesn't meet all the needs and all the services are not well established, and it's not organized, just to say like that,"

"That's why we are also working together with the authorities that there are new sites made available for refugees where they would have more dignified shelter, where they would have more secure shelter than it is right now here, and plus in parallel to that they can actually have access to information," said Liene Veide, UNHCR from Public Information Officer.