A volunteer dressed as a clown gives balloons to refugee children at Victoria square in Athens, on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says the million mark was crossed on Monday – a more than a four-fold increase in comparison with previous year. Nearly all came by sea, while 3,692 drowned in the attempt.
Turkish strikes kill at least 110 Kurdish militants in 6 days
In recent years the PKK has been pressing for greater autonomy and rights for the Kurds, Turkey’s largest minority. The bomb was detonated while fighting between the security forces and PKK militants are ongoing in the district.
The coast guard says another 15 people have been rescued, while a search is underway to locate one missing person.
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The wood boat capsized in high waves as it tried to cross from Turkey’s Izmir province to the Greek island of Lesbos.
The nationalities of the victims were not mentioned in reports.
The deaths today are the third in as many days between Turkey’s southwestern coast and nearby Greek islands and coincides with falling temperatures and rougher seas.
Eighteen people drowned off Turkey overnight on Friday to Saturday when their boat sank in the Aegean Sea as it was heading for the Greek island of Kalymnos.
Almost 3,700 people fleeing from Africa and the Middle East have died trying to cross the Mediterranean in the a year ago, and another 150,000 have been rescued from sea disasters by the Italians, according to Italy’s Minister of Transportation, Graziano Delrio.
IOM is also critical towards Greece saying that the Mediterranean – Balkan country is trying to rebuff criticism that it has done too little to manage the people arriving on its shores.
The UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres last week, called for “massive resettlement” of Syrian and other refugees within Europe, for distributing many hundreds of thousands of people before the continent’s asylum system crumbled.
Turkey, which is now playing host to at least 2.2 million Syrian refugees, is a major launch pad for migrants who are seeking better lives in the European Union member states.
The Turkish coast guard found the bodies of 18 migrants, and according to the survivors’ statements there were still two unaccounted for. Doing so may result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
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