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Greece to replace migrant camps new centres

The Greek government has announced it will replace intensely overcrowded migrant camps on the Aegean Islands with five major new centres for asylum seekers. The step comes amid a continuing influx of new arrivals from Turkey. It is an effort by the new conservative government to tighten its control over migrant flows while also addressing conditions at the camps. Manos Logothetis is Greece's Migration Ministry Secretary, is the country replacing camps with detention facilities for migrants?

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