Turkey finds at least 50000 refugees so far in 2016

Hungary declared a state of emergency previous year in several counties directly affected by the migrant flow and built fences on its borders with Serbia and Croatia which have greatly reduced the number of migrants entering the country in their efforts to reach Germany and other destinations in Western Europe.

European Union member Slovenia said it would allow in only migrants wishing to claim asylum there or those seeking entry "on humanitarian grounds and in accordance with the rules of the Schengen zone " .

"Personally I think that Austria's unilateral decision, and then those made subsequently by Balkan countries, will obviously bring us fewer refugees, but they put Greece in a very hard situation", she said.

Greek officials have had difficulty persuading people to relocate to other camps further inland as many fear they could be forced to spend months there.

Under a deal agreed in principle at an EU-Turkey summit in Brussels on Monday Turkey has been promised financial assistance of up to Euro 6 B in return for helping curb the migrant inflow into Europe from the country's territory.

Turkey and Greece vowed close cooperation on Tuesday on a plan to send back migrants rejected by Europe, laying aside historic differences in an agreement they hope will end illegal flows of people across the Aegean Sea.

Some 850,000 people landed in Greece from Turkey a year ago, often in desperately unseaworthy vessels.

An EU definition of such a state refers to the Geneva Convention on refugees, with which Turkey does not fully comply.

Bill Frelick, refugee rights director at Human Rights Watch, said: "The integrity of the EU's asylum system, indeed the integrity of European values, is at stake". Clandestine routes are opening again in Hungary, where authorities report more people are breaching the razor-wire fence on its southern border.

European Union interior ministers were discussing a draft deal reached at an EU-Turkey summit on Monday, which involves a one-for-one swap of Syrian refugees, in hopes of sealing an agreement at a fresh leaders' meeting next week.

But migrants have continued to try to cross from Turkey's coast in recent days.

Turkish coastguards managed to save nine of the migrants on board while two are still missing.

"We must look at the details to see if it's feasible" , he said.

Rights group Amnesty International said the proposal was full of "moral and legal flaws" and along with Human Rights Watch challenged the idea that Turkey was a "safe country" to which migrants could return.

As NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson has reported, European leaders "want Ankara to do a better job of stopping illegal migrants from transiting through Turkey to get to Europe, and to take back rejected asylum seekers that came through Turkey".

Source: Turkey finds at least 50000 refugees so far in 2016