Refugee camp

During a joint press conference with the Representative of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR),Philippe Leclerc, Alternate Minister of Immigration Policy Ioannis Mouzalas outlined the relocation plans for refugees in local camps in the regions of Thessaly.

For a story of waste and suffering, it's notable that some of the worst decisions in response to the refugee crisis in Greece were born of good intentions. An archipelago of some 50 small refugee camps was scattered over Greece in preference to concentrating asylum seekers in larger ghettos. As an idea it had merits. In practice it was disastrous.

The UN Refugee Agency and the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival have organized a cookout at Warehouse A in the port complex on Friday, starting at 4 p.m.

Syrian doctors and other medical professionals, who have survived the unbridled war in their country, are helping their countrymen recover physically and mentally to embark on a new life in several facilities in southern Turkey with the support of 50 non-governmental organizations.

Almost 4 percent of Istanbul's population is made up of Syrian refugees, according to a new report. 

The Marmara Municipalities' Union's Migration Policies Center report stated that nearly 540,000 Syrian nationals are currently residing in Istanbul, Turkey's largest city. 

According to the report, Syrians thus make up 3.67 percent of the population. 

In this photo made available Thursday, refugee children from Afghanistan look at the moon through a telescope during a visit to the National Observatory of Athens, on Wednesday. This was the first group in an initiative for all children staying at refugee camps in the capital to be treated to a field trip to the NOA.

Greek Alternate Minister of Immigration Policy Ioannis Mouzalas said normalcy on the refugee crisis did not depend on Greece, but the actual refugee flows and Greece’s responsibilities arising from EU regulations. Speaking before the parliamentary committee, Mr.

State hospital doctors on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, which has been hard particularly hit by the refugee crisis, have complained that nongovernmental organizations receiving European Union funding to help migrants are not doing enough, resulting in them being forced to bear an excessive burden.

Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis (c) is seen during a visit to the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos, on Friday. Mitsotakis attacked the leftist-led government's handling of the refugee crisis, describing the situation at the camp as "disheartening." "It is inconceivable today to have people living in wrecked tents, in the mud," he said.

The efforts of mayors of Lesbos, Greece and Lampedusa, Italy during the ongoing refugee crisis was recognized with the most official way as they were awarded the 2016 Olof Palme Prize.