ISTANBUL
\nTurkiye has rescued 95 migrants from three overloaded boats in the Aegean Sea, the interior ministry said on Monday, accusing Greece of \u201cpushing back\u201d the dinghies from its shores.
\nTwo inflatable boats carrying 37 people and 47 people respectively were rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday, the interior ministry said.
\nAnother boat carrying 11 people was spotted near Turkiye\u2019s western port city of Izmir the same day, the interior ministry said. The ministry described all 95 people as \u201cirregular migrants\u201d but provided no details of their countries of origin.
\nAnkara regularly accuses Greece of pushing migrant boats back into Turkish waters in violation of international law.
\nGreece accuses Turkiye of turning a blind eye to irregular migrants leaving its shores.
\nTurkey\u2019s latest accusations came just weeks after a fishing trawler carrying hundreds of migrants capsized in Greek waters, leaving at least 82 dead.
\nGreek coastguards managed to rescue 104 people but as many as 560 others on board may have perished, by some estimates.
\nThe European Union\u2019s border agency, Frontex, said last week it had received \u201cno response\u201d when it offered aerial support to Greek officials before the tragedy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
ISTANBUL Turkiye has rescued 95 migrants from three overloaded boats in the Aegean Sea, the interior ministry said on Monday, accusing Greece of \u201cpushing back\u201d the dinghies from its shores. Two inflatable boats carrying 37 people and 47 people respectively were rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday, the interior ministry said. Another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n