Asylum seeker

"Over 1,300 unattended children request asylum"

Over 3,000 children requested asylum in Serbia since the beginning of the year, over 1,300 of them children without parental escort.

At the same time, "is not known how many children are staying or transiting through the country without requesting asylum," Director of the Center for Protection and Assistance to Asylum Seekers Rados Djurovic stated on Wednesday.

Turkey Police Detain Migrants, Traffickers at Border with Bulgaria

Forty-five asylum seekers and 4 traffickers have been detained while trying to cross into Bulgaria from the Turkish side of the border.

The migrants were discovered in two vans while their drivers' documents were being checked by police, according to the Bulgarian National Radio.

Thirty of the potential asylum seekers were Syrians, and the other fifty were from Iraq.

Bulgaria's Refugee Agency Head Vows Quicker Decisions for Asylum Seekers

Nikola Kazakov, Chair of Bulgaria's State Agency for Refugees, visited Germany to study the country's experience in coping with the asylum surge.

In a Tuesday interview for the Bulgarian National Radio, Kazakov said that Germany expected around 450 000 refugees in 2015.

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