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Pushbacks: Together Magazine, December 2023
Our article Pushbacks, in Finland's Together magazine, highlighting the Greek government's vicious and illegal anti-refugee campaign.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Feb 29, 20241 min read
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Pushback proportions, not numbers, fall in August
Although the proportion of people being illegally pushed back from Greece has fallen, the reason is not what one might expect or hope.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 8, 20234 min read
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EU must abandon plans to wreck, end, human lives
The EU has agreed two of the worst 'migration initiatives' in human history. Both must be abandoned, as they will kill people seeking safety

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 2, 202312 min read
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SYRIZA cannot govern Greece by running from reality
SYRIZA's latest comment on refugees is worse than anything Nea Dimokratia has said. If the party wishes to govern, it must find some courage

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Apr 7, 20237 min read
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Calabria: the outcome of years of breaking the law
The death of at least 62 people at Calabria is the outcome of the EU breaking the law: the solution is simple. Obey the law.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Feb 27, 202315 min read
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Mitarachis and the Turkish earthquakes: using catastrophe to spread bigotry
Greek Minister Notis Mitarachis' comment on the Turkish earthquakes may be electorally 'smart', but Greece and the EU deserve better.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Feb 21, 20233 min read
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‘A wall’, or ‘The collapse of the law’
The Greek government, backed by the EU and a UK ever closer to being a rogue state, is boasting about assaulting the law and human decency.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jan 31, 202313 min read
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Concerning claims from Evros border
Several very significant questions must be answered about what happened at the Evros border on Friday 14 October 2022.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 16, 20226 min read
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CNN wastes opportunity to speak to Mitarachis
When a country's government is as limited and unpleasant as Greece's, it needs its journalists to step up. CNN Greece failed to do so.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 14, 20225 min read
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Evros islet not Turkish after all
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachis openly lied about the status of an islet on which he left a five-year-old girl to die.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 12, 20224 min read
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Mitarachis treats Greek people like morons
With his latest social media post, Greece’s Migration Minister Notis Mitarachis has shown his outright contempt for the Greek public.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Oct 7, 20227 min read
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Mitsotakis seeks to mislead the world
We have to counter the Greek Prime Minister's claims about his country's behaviour towards refugees because he does not tell the truth.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 25, 20227 min read
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‘Convoy of light’ – what to expect from our governments
If a 'convoy of light' really is set to travel from Türkiye, we must be prepared to counter the lies with which the Right will respond.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Sep 10, 20223 min read
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Mitsotakis disgraces Greece with joke about dead five-year-old girl
Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis has brought shame on his office and his country by joking about the death of a five-year-old girl.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 29, 202210 min read
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A story of Maria: how the Greek government killed a five-year-old girl
A five year-old girl was killed as a result of the actions of the Greek government and police.This is how that outrage happened.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 18, 20229 min read
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Josoor: human rights and human safety unravel before our eyes
The closure of Josoor points to some stark, disturbing truths. We are watcing human rights and human safety be snatched away by governments.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Aug 17, 20226 min read
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Kiriakos Mitsotakis: Strange, erroneous, claims at the EU Parliament
At the EU Parliament, Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis' address left MEPs worse-informed than if he had never spoken.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jul 7, 20225 min read
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Misdirection and blame-shifting: Mitarachis misses another opportunity
Eschewing another chance to reflect and maybe even change, Notis Mitarachis instead misled: there was nothing new to see at the LIBE meeting

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 29, 202213 min read
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What happened at Agios Georgios?
Four people died in a 'rescue' in which it appears the Greek Coastguard sent a ship carrying more than 100 people to smash on coastal rocks

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 20, 20226 min read
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The Sound of Greece’s Summer: ‘It’s Turkey’s fault’, Part Four. Government feeds media its narrative
As we noted, Greece's government has told media increased new arrivals will be Türkiye's fault, and it will use its military against them.

Rory O'Keeffe, Koraki
Jun 6, 20224 min read
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