European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans and European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos are visiting Kos island on Friday to be briefed on the serious condition on the Aegean island provoked by the increased migrants and refugees flow.

Some 10,000 refugees and migrants were led from the area of the port of Mytilene in an open space near the beach "Tsamakia".

Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic said that a ship seized off the island of Crete by Greek security forces en route from Turkey to Libya was registered to a Greek company and was carrying “legal arms” to Sudanese police.

Former Greek Prime Minister and party president emeritus, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, had dinner with New Democracy’s president,Vagelis Meimarakis.