Greece reinforced border controls along its frontier with Turkey to halt people made homeless by the earthquakes that have devastated south-east Turkey and northern Syria. Hundreds of extra border guards began patrolling the Greek-Turkish border.
‘The mass movement of millions of people is not a solution,’ said Greece’s migration minister, Notis Mitarachi.
Actually, migrating away from an active tectonic area is a solution, but not one capitalism would ever condone.
Greater numbers of refugees are risking their lives to travel in vastly overcrowded boats from Turkey to Italy. 59 refugees, including a newborn baby, were found dead on Sunday after their vessel ran aground in rough seas off Calabria. They had started their journey from the Turkish coast.