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Number of migrants crossing from Turkey to Greece triples in one month

panorama.am08/23rd/2019, 8:24

Number of migrants crossing from Turkey to Greece triples in one month

Greece is at “breaking point” as the number of illegal migrants making the deadly sea crossing from Turkey to Europe has tripled. As The Sun reports, the country has about 90,000 migrants in more than 50 camps and across the mainland and islands. Many of the camps are rife with squalor, overcrowding and disease.

They are also filled with thousands of unaccompanied minors.

The surge has sparked fears Greece will soon break the 100,000 mark it says it can cope with, The Times reports. If that happens it would result in a humanitarian crisis for the poorest state in the EU which is still reeling from the economic crises of more than a decade ago.

There were 1,570 arrivals by sea in the first week of this month, compared with 479 in the s...

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