(Reuters) Greece has seen fewer migrants and refugees arriving from Turkey, numbering in the hundreds in the last four months, mainly due to increased border checks and partly due to the coronavirus pandemic, a government minister said on Tuesday.
But Turkey is “a difficult and unpredictable neighbour that controls a pool of four million migrants and refugees,” Alternate Migration Minister George Koumoutsakos told Reuters.
“No one can rule out that it will attempt to use (them) at another instance.”
Koumoutsakos was speaking before visiting migrant camps on the island of Lesbos with the premier of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
