Twelve migrants drowned when their boat sank off the Turkish coast as they were seeking to reach Greece, while around 25 others were rescued, the Anatolia news agency reported.
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Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic urged European leaders to support Turkey in dealing with refugees and migrants, design a common EU asylum policy and strengthen Frontex, the European border agency. Thirty-one others, thought to be mainly Syrian and Afghan, were rescued.
According to Greece s port police, the migrant boat had apparently been attempting to flee the coastguard vessel. More than 3,000 people have perished.
According to the latest figures released by the worldwide Organization for Migration (IOM), approximately 300 refugees have died in the Aegean Sea so far this year while making a journey to the European continent. Despite deteriorating weather conditions, the flow of migrants and refugees arriving at the main entry points continues to average more than 4500 a day.
The fence is similar to one built on the border Hungary shares with Serbia, which is also meant to prevent refugees from crossing through the country on their way to western Europe and Scandinavia. “We won’t be able to order and stem the refugee movement without working together with Turkey”.
Kaczynski shocked a few in Poland when he said Tuesday, October 13, 2015, that migrants who have arrived recently in Europe are carrying diseases that could hurt the local populations.
European leaders are scrambling for solutions to manage the tide and discourage refugees – many of them refugees from the Syrian war – from risking their lives in illegal crossings run by traffickers.
Croatia has responded by saying it will direct refugees to its border with Slovenia instead.
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The Dublin rules say refugees must seek asylum in the first European Union country they land in but they are being sorely tested as the majority of migrants head for Germany after first transiting Greece.
