Athens  - Fair weather and calm seas have seen ever more illegal migrants arrive from Turkey on the nearby Greek island of Leros, prompting an appeal to Athens for help Saturday.

The eastern Aegean region's prefect Ioannis Makhairidis called on central government authorities to declare a state of emergency on Leros after 300 more migrants - many of them minors - arrived there over the past three days.

These swelled the already large numbers of migrants, which making it impossible for the local 8,000 population to sustain normal life, the semi-official ANA news agency reported.

It said a total of 115,000 illegal immigrants were reckoned to have arrived in Greece over the past 12 months, meaning one person in ten of the country's population was a foreigner. (dpa)