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By Kostas Kallergis
image captionThree boats landed on Lesbos in the early hours of 29 November: those on two of the boats ended up back in Turkey
In the early hours of a Sunday in late November, 16-year-old Jeancy Kimbenga tried to reach Europe for a third time. He was on one of three dinghies that landed on the Greek island of Lesbos that day from Turkey.
On that occasion, as with his two previous attempts, Jeancy claims he was forcibly returned to Turkish waters.
So-called pushbacks, without consideration of a migrant s individual circumstances and without any possibility of applying for asylum, are illegal under international human rights law.
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The Greek minister told
The Times that NGO’s from Somalia, Britain, Turkey and elsewhere assisted in the smuggling of illegal immigrants to Greece.
Mitarachi highlighted that the Norwegian non-governmental organization Aegean Boat Report, and the London-based Al-Khair Foundation assisted human traffickers.
Al-Khair Foundation.
Five other European NGO’s are also complicit in being human traffickers the crime and helping illegal immigrants enter the country.
“Contacts in Mogadishu facilitate transport to Istanbul, even paying for migrant airfare on Turkish Airlines,” the minister said. “From there, migrants are transported to key points along the Turkish coast, working with aid groups to push them to islands like Lesvos”, he said.