The Turkish Embassy in Athens criticized and rejected false reports against Türkiye published by Greek media outlets.
It called out Greek news organizations for failing to retract fabricated reports based on a video that they claimed showed Turkish authorities pushing irregular migrants toward Greece.
The video in question was from 2019 and actually showed Turkish teams trying to stop migrants from heading to Greece, the embassy clarified in a series of tweets.
"Several Greek news outlets were quick to disseminate a purported ‘visual proof of Turkish push-forward of irregular migrants' this past week," the embassy said.
"We would have expected similarly swift and honest retractions when it turned out that the video (which was itself from 2019) actually shows strenuous efforts by the Turkish coast guard doing just the opposite – i.e. trying to intercept a migrant boat from making the crossing to the Greek side."
The embassy also attached a Turkish coast guard statement on the incident released on Sept. 9, 2019.
"We hope to thus fill the information gap," the embassy added.
Earlier this week, Deputy Interior Minister Ismail Çataklı had also rejected and slammed claims by the Greek migration minister on migrant pushbacks.
The incident, which took place near the Madra Çayı on Sept. 5, 2019, involved a migrant boat carrying out maneuvers, risking the lives of individuals on board.
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