`Exiles in the Aegean`: a year after the EU-Turkey deal
(WorldNews Greece)

The EU-Turkey deal turns one year old on 18 March. Has it achieved its intended purpose? Piles of used life jackets on the Greek island of Lesvos in February 2017. Owen Humphreys/PA Wire/PA Images Bert Birtles, an Australian journalist and poet, arrived in Athens in the fall of 1935 to meet Dora `at sunset under the Parthenon`. Very soon, the interest of the young devoted admirers of classical Greece shifted from the archaeological ruins to contemporary politics. In 1936, following a fascist coup, Bert and Dora started visiting islands of the Aegean that were used as destinations for exiles. In 1938, Birtles published Exiles in the Aegean , his `personal narrative of Greek politics and...