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A trilateral meeting focusing on migration management was held today in Istanbul, bringing together the ministers responsible for migration from Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

The Greek office of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) appealed to the European Union to boost support for Greece and other southern European countries struggling with a growing influx of would-be immigrants, reporting that arrivals on islands in the Aegean have tripled over the past year as daily Kathimerini writes.

Near Samos, thirty passengers are missing and at least two have drowned, as a result of two sinking boats located near the Turkish coastline.