"On Friday, hundreds of refugees arrived within an hour on the Greek island," writes the German daily Bild, paintin a dark picture of the situation in Lesvos.

“No one can stop us in the eastern Mediterranean”, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said while addressing Turkey’s national assembly on occasion of the 948th anniversary of the Battle of Manzikert.

Marking the 96th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne, the landmark pact delineating the modern Turkish state, President Erdogan on Wednesday stressed Turkey's "resilience in the face of external threats," signed after Mustafa Kemal slaughtered hundreds of thousands of hapless civilians of Greek, or Christian descent.