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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9575

9 January 2008
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/jha
Athens accuses Ankara of failing to prevent mass arrival of illegal immigrants

Brussels, 08/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - The Greek government is accusing Ankara of neglecting the problem of illegal immigration. “We are experiencing an increase in illegal immigrants from Turkey, arriving on Turkish boats with Turkish captains, Greek Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos complained recently. “The Turks do not monitor their borders, there is a lot of organised trafficking there, controlled by powerful mafia networks, he said in Le Figaro on Monday 7 January. For...

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