Seven children, four men and two women have drowned after a boat carrying refugees capsized off the tiny Greek island of Farmakonisi, as a refugee exodus towards Europe continues despite winter cold.
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“The vessel, a 6-metre (20-foot) speed boat, sank under unknown circumstances”, one of the officials told Reuters.
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They were heading to the Greek island of Lesbos, when their wooden boat capsized off the shores of Bademli village in Turkey’s western province of Izmir.
The accident occurred before dawn Wednesday off the small Aegean Sea island of Farmakonissi.
Half from Syria but plenty from elsewhere (Afghanistan, Iraq, Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia…) into an increasingly unwelcoming Europe. A report said there was little evidence of progress since Turkey signed an “action plan” with the EU.
4,000 lost or missing to the waters of the Mediterranean this year. About a million immigrants have arrived in Germany alone this year, but this figure includes a large number of people who arrived from the Balkans early in the year. In a year where the UNHCR says there will be more than 60-million displaced.
The scores of people streaming into Europe in 2015 were running from persecution, conflict and poverty.
“The refugee issue is not a matter of political bribery”, a Turkish government official said, while adding that there was no other country as experienced as Turkey in meeting refugee demands.
Almost 3,000 others have died on the perilous Mediterranean crossing to Italy.
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Athens has also asked European Union partners to check whether Turkey has fulfilled a recent agreement over stemming the migrant flow to re-admit migrants who do not qualify as refugees. Lebanon has one million Syrian refugees itself, Jordan 600,000. Brussels vowed to provide €3bn (£2.2bn), as well as political concessions, to Ankara in return for its cooperation in tackling Europe’s worst refugee crisis since the second world war.
