Three people are dead and others are injured after a seaplane belonging to a fishing lodge crashed with 10 people on board in southwest Alaska. But increasingly hard living and working conditions, as well as the impossibility of claiming asylum in the country, has led a growing number of people to try to reach Europe via smugglers’ routes. “Secondly I want to continue my studies that I had to quit in Syria“, he said.
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In other news, Hurriyet ran the headline: “We march against terror”, reporting that more than 200 nongovernmental organizations will gather in the Turkish capital Ankara for a major anti-terrorism demonstration. “We hear that things are much better in Europe, that everything is free”, said Syrian migrant Sherif, 27.
Syrian refugees, who intended to enter the territory of Greece, will be transported to the province of Mardin in southeast Turkey. “We are so sad”, he said. More than 430,000 refugees have arrived in Europe by sea so far in 2015, with 70 percent of these being registered in Greece, the IOM reported recently.
Few, but deadly. On Tuesday, 22 refugees, including four children, died when the wooden boat they were crammed onto sank off the Turkish coast on its way to Kos.
Joseph finds them a consignee, who, for a small fee, holds their money and pays smugglers once they get a call with a password from Europe. A Frontex spokeswoman said they were “black leather chairs with a trimension mechanism and a minimum warranty period of five years”.
Hungary declared a state of emergency on Tuesday as it began cracking down on migrants with tough new immigration laws and border controls.
Gendarmes who had briefly thrown up barricades earlier in the week to halt the march near the city of Edirne, around 17 kilometers from the Greek border crossing, did not stop the crowd this time.
“Last week, we managed to send back 7,500 people by convincing them not to stay”. “The remaining group of 2,000 people insists on staying here …”
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“If they will not allow us, I don’t know what to do”, he adds: “What I know is that we cannot return back to our homeland”. Until they let her cross the border. “The 15km zone before the border is a zone from which refugees are banned”. The refugees cry and shiver in the cold as they disembark, with one saying “Thank you, Greece”.
