ANADOLU AGENCY NICOSIA The president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus blamed the Greek side for the failure of reunification talks to find a solution on the decades old divided Mediterranean island. Turkish Cypriot President Mustafa Akıncı said talks in Mont Pelerin, Switzerland, were deadlocked due to the Greek […]
DAILY SABAH ANKARA Following an intense series of talks in Mont-Pelerin between Nov. 7 and Nov. 11, Turkish and Greek Cypriot leaders will return to Switzerland on Nov. 20 as negotiations facilitated by the United Nations (U.N.) look set to resume. Meanwhile, speaking at the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’s […]
Source: Time By Aryn Baker / Thessaloniki As winter approaches, blankets and warm clothes are not enough for the 50,000 refugees in Greece awaiting resettlement in Europe Correction appended, Nov. 15 Camp residents heard the screaming before the acrid scent of burning plastic and polyester wafted through the abandoned factory. Once […]
Child refugees in Greece have missed 18 months of their education on average, with one in five never having been to school. But on one island, a Swiss organisation has […]
Source: Aljazeera By Nikolia Apostolou Lesbos, Greece – Before sunrise, 45-year-old fisherman Kostas Pinteris launches his small boat eastwards with a plan to drop his nets near the Greece-Turkey border in […]
Source: The Guardian Migrants and refugees inside Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Photograph: Petros Giannakouris/AP By Patrick Kingsley in Moria, Lesvos Christians working in Greece’s most notorious asylum detention […]
theguardian.com Greece: Christians working in Greece’s most notorious asylum detention centre have tried to convert some of the Muslim detainees, who have been held under the terms of the EU-Turkey migration deal. On at least two occasions in recent months, aid workers have distributed conversion forms inside copies of Arabic […]
By Riham Alkousaa and Maximilian Popp Konstantinos Tsakalidis/ DER SPIEGEL Refugee Mesut Mahmud The closure of the Balkan route has left tens of thousands of refugees stranded in Greece with nowhere to go. Smugglers who once profited from sneaking migrants deeper into Europe are now offering a new service: A […]
Source: Associated Press By DEREK GATOPOULOS and DEMETRIS NELLAS ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of the world’s Orthodox Christian churches have gathered on the Greek island of Crete […]
Reuters International JUN 13, 2016 – 15:43 Refugees and migrants are briefed by a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff (L) before a pre-registration process that gives them access to the asylum procedure, at the premises of the disused Hellenikon airport, in Athens, Greece, June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis […]
Source: BBC Police in Greece and the Czech Republic have arrested more than 20 people suspected of forging travel documents for migrants trying to enter Europe. European police agency Europol […]
Source: BBC By Who, What WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mount Athos in Greece to mark the 1,000-year presence of Russian […]
May 09,2016 – Jordan Times – Yanis Varoufakis The financial meltdown of 2008 prompted calls for a global financial system that curtails trade imbalances, moderates speculative capital flows and prevents systemic contagion. That, of course, was the goal of the original Bretton Woods system. But such a system today would […]
By JT – Apr 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Her Majesty Queen Rania on Monday called for a collective global response to the growing refugee crisis, explaining that its impact is much greater than any one country or any one region’s capacity to cope. The Queen made these statements […]
Burying drowned migrants is part of a broader Greek problem Apr 20th 2016, 12:55 by M.TZ. and ERASMUS | MYTILENE THE newly established graveyard, a short drive west of Mytilene port, is a desperately sad place. In the middle of an olive grove, there are dozens of mounds of crumbly earth, some created only a […]
Reuters International APR 10, 2016 – 17:37 By Stoyan Nenov IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) – Dozens of migrants and refugees were wounded on Sunday when Macedonian police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at crowds on the Greek side of the border, aid workers said, an act condemned by Greece as […]
Source: BBC The first boats carrying migrants being deported from Greece have arrived in Turkey as part of an EU plan aimed at easing mass migration to Europe. Most of […]
MIGRATION CRISIS By Gaby Ochsenbein, Piraeus, Greece MAR 24, 2016 – 11:02 Kristina Häsler tries to improve the situation of refugees living in an improvised tent camp in the Greek port of Piraeus (swissinfo.ch) The Greek port of Piraeus is currently home to 4,000-5,000 refugees, who live in warehouses and […]
By AFP – Mar 22,2016 -JORDAN TIMES A migrant girl exits a tent in the makeshift refugee camp at the northern Greek border point of Idomeni, Greece, on Tuesday (AP photo) GENEVA — The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) on Tuesday harshly criticised an EU-Turkey deal on curbing the influx […]
Reuters International MAR 22, 2016 – 09:45 LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) – The United Nations refugee agency has stopped transporting migrants arriving on Lesbos from Turkey to a reception facility as their subsequent freedom of movement is no longer guaranteed, a UNHCR spokesman said, referring to last week’s EU-Turkey deal. The […]