(Kathimerini) Ankara has taken its allegations of human rights violations by Greece to the United Nations, accusing it of pushbacks and refugee and migrant deaths in the Aegean.
The Turkish allegations are included in the letter sent by the permanent representative of Turkey to the United Nations, Feridun Sinirlioglu, to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on February 16.
Greece, which has dismissed the claims as baseless and nonexistent, is expected to respond in the coming days, with its own letter to the United Nations secretary-general.
Sinirlioglu said in his letter last week that for more than a decade, Greece has been endangering the lives of refugees and migrants in the Aegean Sea and along the land border with Turkey with increasing frequency and ferocity.
