The European Commission confirmed on Friday 15 January that it had received a letter from Notis Mitarachi, the Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum, informing it that Greece had asked Turkey for the “immediate return” to its territory of nearly 1,500 migrants whose right to asylum had been denied by the Greek authorities. The Commission has not confirmed that Athens has requested specific assistance to support these returns or that this is a ‘request’, but the Greek government...