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Hours before the agreement to return migrants to Turkey entered in force, there was a sharp increase in the number of people trying to enter Greece.
Is there tension? Here to brief us is our international reporter Alexandrina Avramova. Alex.
Hello. According to the agreement, migrants who enter Greece must be returned to Turkey if they do not seek asylum or if their demand is rejected.
However, Athens says it may not be able to apply all clauses of the agreement right away, because key details haven't been clarified.
2,300 experts who will help with the application of the document's clauses are expected to arrive in Greece.
The main concern at the moment revolves around how to send back the migrants, who keep arriving on the island of *** even today.
They wave, clap and smile, happy that they've made it to Europe on the overcrowded rubber boat.
The 50 migrants are among the first to arrive on the island of *** the day the agreement between Turkey and the EU entered in force.
We hope that this agreement doesn't enter in force. We hope we can make it to Europe. We will, if we're lucky.
Two men, however, aren't so lucky. They died on the boat.
Hours after the agreement entered in force, the shores of Turkish village Bademli, where migrants aided by traffickers make their way to ***, are unusually silent.
Police and gendarmerie patrol the area. - They don't let them pass. Today is calm. No one coming or going.
Turkey has detained over 2,000 migrants since Friday. Meanwhile 47,000 remain stuck in Greece, with 10,000 of those in the Idomeni camp on the Greek-Macedonian border.
We'll stay right here. And we will open this border.
Migrants are to be returned to Turkey starting April 4, but doubt whether the agreemen is at all legal remains.
It remains unclear what will happen to the thousands already in Greece. In 2016 alone, 144,000 people have arrived in Greece according to UN data.