The EU-Turkey action plan to counter the ongoing refugee crisis has not been implemented by all sides, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Monday.
Hundreds of thousands of people have used the route in recent months to try to reach preferred destinations like Germany or the countries of Scandinavia.
European Union leaders and Turkey will meet on Monday, in a last-ditch attempt to stem the massive movement of people across the continent.
Visa-free travel from Turkey to the European Union is also said to be something Ankara is demanding.
European Parliament President Martin Schulz said he had told Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu that media freedom was "a non-negotiable element of our European identity" and they had differed sharply.
Davutoglu said he hoped the summit would also address Turkey's desired membership of the EU.
That response, which undermined pledges to present a united European front to the crisis and share the migrant burden, was criticized by global organizations, with the U.N.'s refugee agency warning last week that Europe now faced an "imminent humanitarian crisis, largely of its own making". The German Chancellor faces a potential backlash against her open doors policy in three regional elections next Sunday.
Ahead of the summit in Brussels, thousands of people waited by Greece's border with Macedonia hoping desperately to be allowed to cross.
In a draft statement prepared for the summit, seen by The Associated Press, the leaders said they will pursue "comprehensive, large scale and fast-track returns to Turkey of all irregular migrants not in need of worldwide protection".
In the meanwhile, leaders have begun arriving for a crucial EU Summit with Turkey, as the ongoing migration crisis continues to plague the Aegean Sea.
More than 30,000 people are trapped on Greece's northern border after a unilateral decision by Macedonia to close its border. Figures show that more than 125,000 migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe so far this year.
Turkish authorities have detained a Turkish boat owner and a suspected people smuggler over the latest sinking of a vessel carrying migrants in the Aegean Sea that left at least 25 dead, reports said on Monday.
"For months, refugees who landed in Greece were waved through to northern Europe by the Balkan countries of Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, as well as Austria".
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation said on Sunday a new naval force had approval to operate in Turkish and Greek waters.
Deployed as a part of the global response to Nato's mission to combat the migration crisis, the UK Royal Navy will deploy the amphibious landing ship Mounts Bay of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA), supplemented by a Wildcat helicopter. Those two countries on Europe's outer edges are struggling to cope with hundreds of thousands of migrants hoping to reach a better life in the north.
Source: Turkey Detains Two over Latest Migrant Tragedy
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