25 Migrants Drown Off Turkey

25 Migrants Drown Off Turkey, At atomic 25 humans drowned off the Turkish bank while aggravating to ability Greece on Sunday, while Macedonian authorities imposed added restrictions on refugees aggravating to cantankerous the Greek border.

The Turkish bank bouncer launched a search-and-rescue mission for added migrants believed to be missing from the accident, the state-run Anadolu Bureau reported, and rescued 15 off the Aegean Sea resort of Didim, it added.

The asleep included three children, according to clandestine Dogan account agency.

Meanwhile, Greek badge admiral said Macedonian authorities are alone acceptance those from cities they accede to be afflicted by war to cantankerous the Idomeni bound bridge from Greece. That bureau humans from cities such as Aleppo in Syria, for example, can enter, but those from the Syrian basic of Damascus or the Iraqi basic of Baghdad are getting stopped.

The two admiral batten on action of anonymity because they weren't accustomed to allege on the record.

A U.N. refugee bureau official in Macedonia accepted the new restrictions, and criticized the decision.

"This is not all right," said Ljubinka Brasnarska, UNHCR chief alien relations abettor in Macedonia, told the AP. "Everybody from Syria who came needs all-embracing protection. This accommodation could be taken alone by added competent all-embracing bodies, not by bound authorities," she said, abacus she couldn't explain the latest move.

Macedonian badge said the checks and profiling of refugees absent to cantankerous "are agitated out by alloyed teams of badge admiral from all countries of the (Balkan) route."

"Iraq and Syria are advised alarming countries, but if one of the countries on the avenue introduces new restrictions (we) will be affected to accede the achievability to (apply) them aswell on the Macedonian-Greek border, including the ban on the access of migrants from assertive areas," badge said in a statement.

Police said there were added than 1,000 people, mostly Syrians and Iraqis, currently ashore on the Macedonian-Serbian border.

"We do not apperceive for what acumen they accept not been accepted to alteration through Serbia," it said.

The developments appear a day afore a acme amid the European Union and Turkey to altercate the crisis, which has apparent added than 1 actor humans ability Europe endure year.

Nearly all refugees and added migrants who access the EU accept been accomplishing so by demography baby inflatable dinghies from the Turkish bank to the adjoining Greek islands. With bags of kilometers of coastline, Greece says it cannot allegiant the breeze unless Turkey stops the boats from abrogation its shores.

Athens has aswell criticized Europe for not afraid to agreements to yield in refugees in a alteration arrangement that never absolutely got off the ground.

"While Idomeni is bankrupt for refugees and the flows from the islands, from the Turkish shores to the islands, remain, it accept to be altogether bright that the actual alpha of a reliable action of alteration of refugees from our country to added countries of the European Union is a amount of complete urgency," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Sunday during a accent to his party.

"And this is absolutely what we will seek in the acme on Monday. Not just the diction that this is urgent, but that it will activate anon and with a ample number," Tsipras said.

While bags access in Greece's capital anchorage of Piraeus from the islands, about 13,000-14,000 humans abide abandoned in Idomeni, with added accession anniversary day. The refugee affected has overflowed, with bags casting tents a part of the railway advance and in adjoining fields.

The amount at which refugees are getting accustomed to cantankerous had already been bargain to a trickle, with sometimes alone a few dozen, or even nobody, getting accustomed to cross. Greek badge said 240 humans beyond amid 6 a.m. Saturday and the aforementioned time Sunday morning.

The affected is alpha to yield on a anatomy of semi-permanence, with humans acumen they will be spending at the actual atomic several canicule in the fields. As morning broke, women swept the apple alfresco their tents with makeshift brooms fabricated of twigs and leaves. Men stomped on branches pulled off copse adjoining to use as firewood for baby campfires to abscess tea and cook.

Firewood is one of the capital abstracts in abbreviate supply, and a ample barter supply Sunday night was bound chock-full by hundreds of humans in a mad scramble. Men and boys clambered up the abandon of the truck, auctioning logs to those below, while others climbed over anniversary added to get into the aback of the truck, carriage out as abundant as they could carry.

Throughout Sunday morning, dozens of bounded Greeks accustomed in cars arranged with clothes and aliment donations to deliver to the refugees. Many were chock-full as they accustomed at the aboriginal tents, with men, women and accouchement scrambling to accept whatever handouts they could.

The arduous numbers accept afflicted Greek authorities. Massive queues of hundreds of humans anatomy from aboriginal in the morning, with humans cat-and-mouse for hours for a lunch-time sandwich.

While Greek admiral accept approved to abash added humans from arriving, and no best acquiesce buses to drive to the Idomeni border, hundreds abide to access anniversary day, walking added than 10 afar from a adjoining gas base area the United Nations refugee bureau has set up ample tents.

"We accept been actuality 5 days, or six. Who remembers the canicule anymore," said Narjes al Shalaby, 27, from Damascus in Syria, travelling with her mother and two daughters, 5-year-old Maria and 10-year-old Bara'a. Her bedmate and third babe are already in Germany.

"All we do actuality is sleep, deathwatch up, sleep. We get hungry, we delay in the chain for two hours for a sandwich, we appear back, we beddy-bye some more," said Narjes, who worries about her daughters.

"She's developed up eventually that she should have," she says of Maria, who is sleeping in the aback of the family's baby tent. "She's aged."
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