In August 2019, about 650 people reached Lesbos from the Turkish coast in one day. It was the first mass arrival from Turkey since the 2016 EU-Turkey deal on migrant crisis. The Greek Foreign Minister summoned the Turkish ambassador to "express Greece’s deep discontent". The Turkish ambassador said that Ankara was "committed" to the deal and that its policy had not changed after being asked how so many were managing to make it Greek shores. In the first two weeks of August 2019, 1,929 people arrived on Lesbos from Turkey, compared with 479 in the same period last year. Due to high influx of immigrants from Turkey into Greece in 2019, the Greek Minister for Civil Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis warned that a new migrant crisis, like the previous one, will repeat if the situation were to continue.