After Tuesday’s announcement that over one million migrants had arrived in Europe this year, International Organization for Migration (IOM) director-general William Lacy Swing urged governments to make migration safer.
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The record movement of people into Europe is a symptom of a record level of disruption globally, with numbers of refugees and internally displaced people passing 60 million, UNHCR said last week.
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IOM says more than 800,000 crossed into Greece from Turkey, including more than 455,000 from Syria and over 186,000 from Afghanistan.
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Half of those who made it to Europe this year were Syrians fleeing their country’s brutal civil war, the UNHCR said, underscoring the conflict’s dominant role in fueling Europe’s migrant crisis. On Monday, the number of migrants who have crossed into Europe this year reached 1 million.
Divers from the nearby Turkish coastal city of Izmir were rushed to the scene after a tip-off that more refugees could be stuck in the hold, Dogan said.
Four Turkish provinces – Canakkale, Izmir, Mugla, and Aydin – lying on the Aegean Sea facing Greek islands are prime spots for refugees leaving Turkey for European Union countries.
The EU is grappling for solutions to the mass arrival of migrants, a lot of them Syrian refugees from Turkey.
Among those traveling by sea, 3,695 are known to have drowned or remain missing as they attempted to cross the sea on unseaworthy boats, according to IOM figures. Greece was by far probably the most very popular point of entry, with greater than 820,000 migrants arriving there.
Out of a total of 10,05,504 arrivals to Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Spain, Malta and Cyprus by 21 December, the vast majority – 816,752 – arrived by sea in Greece, according to IOM.
By contrast, there have been 6,029 deaths between 1998 and 2013 along the second-deadliest border: the one between the United States and Mexico, the International Organization for Migration said. The IOM gathers its statistics from registrations, law enforcement agencies and its own monitors.
‘As we enter the winter season, it will only become more hard, ‘ said another Greek official.
The number represents a fourfold rise on the total a year ago.
The NewsHour’s special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reported that Macedonia has recently cracked down on which migrants are allowed to cross its borders, creating a bottleneck in Greece.
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The suspect, who came to Germany as a refugee in August, allegedly had taken $2,400 (2,200 euros) from fellow Syrian migrants and put them on a small boat to Greece despite bad weather.
