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The Latest: Turkish PM: EU refugee deal to begin Monday

A refugee boy looks on from a tent in a makeshift camp at Idomeni border station on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia, photographed through a fence from the Macedonian side of the border line, Thursday, March 31, 2016. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following border restrictions and closures by Austria and Balkan nations. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)
A refugee boy looks on from a tent in a makeshift camp at Idomeni border station on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia, photographed through a fence from the Macedonian side of the border line, Thursday, March 31, 2016. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following border restrictions and closures by Austria and Balkan nations. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) A refugee boy looks on from a tent in a makeshift camp at Idomeni border station on the Greek side of the border with Macedonia, photographed through a fence from the Macedonian side of the border line, Thursday, March 31, 2016. More than 50,000 migrants remain stranded in Greece following border restrictions and closures by Austria and Balkan nations. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

By Associated Press 3 min read

PIRAEUS, Greece (AP) – The Latest on the flow of refugees and other migrants into Europe (all times local):

8 p.m.

Turkey’s prime minister says a deal with the European Union stipulating that refugees who arrive on Greek islands from the Turkish coast will be sent back will go into effect as scheduled on Monday.

In a TV address on Thursday, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu says the method will not increase the number of refugees now in Turkey, because others will be sent to the EU. He also says “there will be no reason for the loss of life of people who hope and desire to cross the Aegean Sea to Europe.”

The deal stipulates that for every Syrian returned, another Syrian in Turkey will be relocated to a European country. It aims to interrupt the smuggling of refugees from Turkey to Greece in what has become a lucrative business for criminal gangs and an often deadly journey for the migrants.