Only 16% of the asylum seekers in Greece can be returned to Turkey or their country of origin despite the EU-Turkey pact, Maria Stavropoulou, former head of the Greek asylum service, said on Sunday 11 February in an interview with Greek daily Kathimerini.
Stavropoulou, whose two-year term of office had just come to an end, said that just 16% of asylum seekers can be sent back to Turkey, and this includes those who want to return to their country of origin and those who have withdrawn their...