European Union leaders and Turkey have finalised a deal to try to ease the migrant crisis.
European Council President Donald Tusk tweetedthere was “unanimous” agreement between Turkey and the 28 EU leaders.
Under the scheme, from midnight Sunday migrants arriving in Greece will be sent back to Turkey if their asylum claim is rejected, EU sources said.
In return, EU countries will resettle thousands of Syrian migrants living in Turkey.
For Turkey, the deal will also bring financial aid and faster EU membership talks.
An EU source told the BBC up to 72,000 Syrian migrants living in Turkey would be settled in the EU under the agreement.
They added that the mechanism would be abandoned if the numbers returned to Turkey exceeded that figure.
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Source: BBC