Discussions on migrants

ANKARA, Turkey — A top European Union official called on Thursday for heightened efforts to stop migrants traveling from Turkey to Greece as a renewed spike in people making it to Greece by boat has overflowed refugee reception centers.

EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos highlighted the trend before a meeting on migration policies in Turkey’s capital with the interior ministers of Turkey and Germany.

“Irregular arrivals to Greece increased over the past weeks and months,” Mr Avramopoulos said.