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Another wave of refugee deportations is within a contentious EU-Turkey deal. Greek officials sent 45 Pakistani asylum seekers back to Turkey in the isle of Lesbos. An upsurge in asylum applications in Greece compelled them to briefly stop, although the ferries were assumed to sail throughout this week.

As the boat taking the 45 guys left, while others attempted to enter the port, three protesters jumped to the ocean to stop the boat, the BBC reports. Every deported refugee was followed to the port from their camp with a guard in the EU border bureau Frontex. Greek officials state they want to deport an additional 95 asylum seekers after now.

In case the asylum seeker is a Syrian, she or he is going to be replaced using a Syrian refugee that has formed a valid request for shelter.

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The primary boat taking migrants being deported from Greece has arrived in Turkey within an EU strategy targeted at easing mass migration to Europe.

Most of the 136 individuals who left Lesbos and arrived in Dikili, western Turkey, on Monday were Pakistanis.

Under the offer, for each Syrian migrant returned to Turkey, the EU is due to take in another Syrian that has formed a valid request.

Sixteen Syrian migrants were the first to arrive in Germany from Turkey.Yet, Syrians weren’t among the initial group of deportees, Greek authorities said, adding they contained citizens from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Morocco who had not applied for asylum.

Turkey’s EU Affairs Minister Volkan Bozkir additionally said no Syrians were sent from Greece.

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The bodies of nine people, including two babies, have been discovered drowned off the coast of western Turkey, after a boat carrying people to Greece partially capsized, the Turkish coastguard said in a statement. The fibreglass vessel somewhat capsized on Tuesday at 05.35 local time (03.35 GMT) off the coast of Seferihisar in Izmir province, close to the Greek island of Samos. Two individuals were rescued swimming to the coast, the coastguard said.A crackdown on illegal crossing and also the dangerous winter conditions have failed to discourage tens of thousands from boarding flimsy boats and attempting to cross the Mediterranean waves in the first couple of weeks of the entire year.

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At least 21 people, including six children, have perished after their boats sank off the Greek islands of Farmakonisi and Kalolimnos, with dozens of other migrants reported missing.

Police said 48 survivors managed to reach the coast of Farmakonisi after the first boat hit rocks around 12.30am Irish time as it was making the perilous crossing from Turkey.

The coastguard recovered the bodies of six kids and a girl. Several hours later, the small Aegean island of Kalolimnos capsized off.

Authorities recovered eight bodies, with the 26 survivors reporting that dozens of individuals had been on the boat.A hunt was under way for the others, authorities said. Another six bodies are uncovered.

Despite the dangers and also the harsh winter weather, people fleeing distress and war in the Middle East and elsewhere – many of them Syrian refugees – are still arriving from Turkey in flimsy boats in their thousands every day.

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The brand new Greek parliament continues to be formally sworn in.

Distinct lawmakers have taken distinct pledges: Muslim, Greek Orthodox, and political.

The assembly was elected into Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ first period in a national survey.

His left wing Syriza party won by a sudden allowance that was great, but short of an overall bulk.

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Greek parties confirmed a deal allows the eurozone policymakers, the International Monetary Fund and the government of Athens to keep talking next week which may considered as the first stage in a clampdown on anti-austerity sentiment.

A lot of issues became very clear after the statements coming out of Brussels, not least those from Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s veteran finance minister, who indulged himself with some patronising comments to show where the power lies, he said with a smile” Being in government is a date with reality, and reality is often not as nice as a dream.”

Generally, Greece has many enemies inside the eurozone, the countries that have suffered Brussels-inspired austerity and those that have played a role in enforcing it, we mean here the Germans, Dutch and Finns, all want the radical leftwing Syriza led government in Athens to stick with the programme.

For the right-of-centre parties that control Portugal, Ireland and probably more importantly Spain the need to keep Greece in check is driven by domestic politics. Any sense that austerity was ever wrong or that it delayed the recovery, as Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis argues, would undermine their authority and hand the intellectual higher ground to rival parties.

However, Varoufakis’s first demand for a debt writedown was dismissed and his attempt to get a bridging loan was totally refused. Decisions to suspend privatisations also frowned on,so he have to use all available money to support Greek banks.

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