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Greece will not allow Turkey to view immigration as a bilateral issue, nor to blackmail the country using migratory flows, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias stressed.

Residents in Kastellorizo ​​are worried by the daily arrivals of refugees and immigrants and are calling for state intervention to tackle the problem because, according to the website dimokratiki.gr, they have begun break ins in their quest to find shelter.

In October, the number of detections of illegal border crossings on Europe’s main migratory routes fell 17 pct from the previous month to around 16,800 due to a drop in arrivals on the Greek islands in the eastern Aegean. The total on all European migratory routes for the first 10 months of 2019 was 16 pct lower at 107,900, a Frontex report said on Wednesday.