Thousands of migrants fleeing Syria continue to be left stranded with nowhere to go at the Greek border with Turkey and are still being stopped from going any further
DIKILI, Turkey - Turkey’s coastguard rescued around 120 migrants trying to reach a Greek island on three dinghies early on Friday after they said their passage was blocked by Greek coastguard vessels.
The migrants, including people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iran and various African countries, held up small children to be rescued first by the crew of the coastguard vessel. Since then, thousands of migrants have sought to reach European Union country Greece, either across the land border or by sea to various Greek islands.
“They pulled us toward the Turkish part of the sea and left us there,” said Ahmed, from the Deir al-Zor region of northeast Syria.
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