A Turkish police officer speaks with a migrant after a vessel transporting migrants from Greek island Chios docked in Dikili port, Turkey, April 4, 2016. They included 130 people from Pakistan, 42 from Afghanistan, 10 from Iran, five from Congo, four from Sri Lanka, three from Bangladesh, three from India, one each from Iraq, Somalia and Ivory Coast, and two Syrians who had asked to be sent back.
In Germany, 16 Syrian refugees from Turkey landed in the central city of Hannover on Monday to be resettled and 16 more were expected on a flight later in the day.
The European Union began sending back migrants on Monday under an agreement with Turkey, but no transfers were planned on Tuesday.
The EU's decision to sign the migrant deal shows that Brussels has essentially agreed to ignore Turkey's numerous human rights violations, especially when it comes to the protection of rights of national minorities and freedom of speech, Slate said.
Several hundred migrants w ere sent from the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to Turkey on Monday, but thousands more remain pending asylum claims.
"Did we turn Syrians back?"
Under the agreement, created to halt new arrivals along the most popular route through Turkey, all "irregular migrants" arriving since March 20 face being sent back.
The deal, though, has been heavily criticised by aid organisations and the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, which claim that collective deportations such as this are illegal and that Turkey is not a safe destination to return refugees.
"There are anywhere between 50,000 and 52,000 people who are now in the country and are trapped here", Kakissis said.
The Greek Orthodox Church earlier said it had approved plans for a papal visit to Lesbos island after Francis expressed a desire to "shed light on the major humanitarian problem" of the migrant influx.
David Cameron told Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras that additional support will be availab le in the coming weeks, after the EU-Turkey agreement to tackle the migrant crisis took effect on Monday. "We picked them up with our coastguard boats and we continue to do so".
Amid anger among migrants detained at a centre on the island of Lesbos, the deal between the European Union and Turkey was again castigated as "careless" and "fast-track".
"This is an easy way for Europe to push the problem into its backyard and let others deal with it", said Panos Navrozidis, country director in Greece for the International Rescue Committee.
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