Maurer also expressed his disquiet after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared he would use a newly-built fence to close the border with Serbia to migrants on Sept.15, and that “rebellious” migrants would be arrested.
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Every hour that passes, however, the number of refugees increases as they communicate via mobile phones and the internet and gather in Istanbul.
French TV journalists joined a boat packed with some 60 refugees on a treacherous journey from the Turkish coast to the Greek island of Lesbos.
Near Edirne, security forces ordered the mainly Syrian refugees off the road, where they attempted to shelter from the sun under trees, with some clutching umbrellas to shade their children and one woman in a wheelchair.
Migrants have avoided Croatia in the past because they must still go into Hungary or Slovenia before reaching Austria or Germany.
More than 10 people have died after a boat carrying refugees sank early Tuesday in the Aegean Sea off Turkey’s southwestern Mugla coast.
“I do not want to do this with a baby”, he said at a cafe where migrants share a water pipe or sip strong coffee.
Tensions have escalated in Turkey following a suicide bomb attack in July – blamed on Daesh – in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa that killed over 30 people. “Now, we will try the bus choice, to go to my children”, he says. A Frontex spokeswoman said they were “black leather chairs with a trimension mechanism and a minimum warranty period of five years”.
Bora Bayraktar euronews correspondent with the migrants reported: “It seems that the refugees who want to walk to Greece will not give up easily”. “The remaining group of 2,000 people insists on staying here …” In Istanbul, hundreds of migrants camping out outside a large mosque near the bus station in the city, hoping to join their compatriots in Edirne.
“The utmost they can stay is three days, they have to leave this place the day after September 18”.
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Quoting one of the survivors, Syrian Efrim Kale, Milliyet wrote: “We were shocked when we saw the vessel”. “We want to send them either to their home countries or to camps”, he said. She said the EU should help guard the 16,000-kilometer European border coastline, but German Chancellor Angla Merkel asserted, “Greece needs to assume its responsibility”.
