Unwelcome Refugees

Fanning the flames of Europe's coronavirus crisis, Turkey has been encouraging Syrian refugees, who lack health care, to congregate on the Greek border. Syrian refugees that crossed the land borders between Greece and Turkey, are detained by Greek soldiers near the town of Soufli, Greece, March 4, 2020. (photo credit:…

Three Turkish men were sentenced this week to 125 years in jail for their part in the drowning of a boy whose death in 2015 became a worldwide symbol of the suffering caused by the Syrian war and European refugee crisis it triggered.A photo of the tiny body of Alan…

Athens’ treatment of thousands of refugees who have massed on the Turkey-Greece border is comparable to atrocities carried out by Nazi Germany, Turkey’s president has claimed amid the latest migrant row with the EU. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out at Greece in an address on Wednesday, claiming that…

Europe says it will consid­er taking 1,500 child refuge­es, but has focuse­d on reinfo­rcing Greece's border­s Dozens of Greek security officers and soldiers fired tear gas as riot police officers with batons, shields and masks confronted migrants, yelling at them to stay back on Saturday. PHOTO: AFP ANKARA: Turkey hopes to…

Germany says it will lead a coalition of European Union nations willing to take in unaccompanied or ill refugee children from Greece's overcrowded camps.Negotiations are under way to bring in 1,500 children with Germany saying it will accept an "appropriate share".Thousands of refugees and migrants have crossed the Greek border…

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has demanded more support from his NATO and European Union allies over the war in Syria as fighting rages in Idlib, and a refugee crisis unfolds at the Turkish-Greek border.  Erdogan flew to Brussels for talks with EU and NATO leaders after tensions rose over…

Turkey's invitation to migrants to make their way into Greece has been widely seen as a provocation aimed at the European Union. For refugees who made their way to the border, it was another cruelty.Refugees walk through a makeshift camp near the edge of Edirne, Turkey, about six kilometres from…

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By Giorgos Christides, Matthias Gebauer, Steffen Lüdke, Peter Müller, Maximilian Popp, Lydia Rosenfelder, Christoph Schult and Wolf Wiedmann-SchmidtThe house belonging to the Arab family is packed with neighbors and friends on this Thursday midday. They have all come to pay their last respects to Mohammed al-Arab. The young man had…

Greek riot police officers walk amid clouds of tear gas near the Turkish-Greek border Clashes have erupted on the Greek-Turkish border with Greek authorities using tear gas and a water cannon to hold back refugees and migrants trying to push through the frontier into Greece. There were also reports of…