Turkey is currently facing a crisis. A crisis of refugees, the refugees are coming from Syria, traveling hundreds of miles just to get the feeling of safety. There are over 750,000 refugees coming from Syria, evidently one of the main refugee paths goes through Turkey to get to Europe. Recently Turkey has let the refugees pass through, Germany has agreed to take in most of the refugees, the US helping with some, but there is still a lot of refugees that don't have a home. One way to measure where migrants have ended up is through asylum applications, other wise known as a safe haven, although not all of those arriving claim asylum, over 700,000 have done so. According to the EU statistics agency, Eurostat.
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Current Events in Turkey
Turkey is currently facing a crisis. A crisis of refugees, the refugees are coming from Syria, traveling hundreds of miles just to get the feeling of safety. There are over 750,000 refugees coming from Syria, evidently one of the main refugee paths goes through Turkey to get to Europe. Recently Turkey has let the refugees pass through, Germany has agreed to take in most of the refugees, the US helping with some, but there is still a lot of refugees that don't have a home. One way to measure where migrants have ended up is through asylum applications, other wise known as a safe haven, although not all of those arriving claim asylum, over 700,000 have done so. According to the EU statistics agency, Eurostat.
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