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Greek refugees is a collective term used to refer to the more than one million Greek Orthodox natives of Asia Minor, Thrace and the Black Sea areas who fled during the Greek genocide (1914-1923) and Greece's later defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922), as well as remaining Greek Orthodox inhabitants of Turkey who were required to leave their homes for Greece shortly thereafter as part ...
Katsikas refugee camp, officially termed Katsikas facility of temporary reception by the Greek government, is an operation unit under the Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum for the hosting and temporary reception of immigrants and refugees in Greece.
Athens refugee squats exist since the 2015 spike in the European migrant crisis. Greece has been a destination for migrants seeking refuge on the European continent via the " Balkan Route ." [ 1 ] Coalitions of solidarity groups and migrants have established squats throughout Athens (mostly in Exarcheia ) to house refugees, demonstrating an ...
A rare cold snap across Europe has endangered the lives of tens of thousands of others stranded in the flimsy tents of Greece's refugee camp. Refugees are dying in Greece's rare snowfall Skip to ...
"I know in Syria we have war and bombs every day," says Amir. But there, "every Syrian dies once. Here we die every day. Every day is bad."
According to the BBC, in 2023 most migrants and refugees land in Italy [31] [32] because it is closer to Western Europe than Greece. [ 17 ] [ 8 ] Such maritime smuggling routes into Europe have seen an increasing number of fatal incidents: 3,800 people died in 2022 while traversing migrant and refugee routes from the Middle East and North ...
For the first half of the twentieth century, immigration mostly flowed outwards from Greece. At the turn of the century, the majority of Greek immigrants migrated to the United States; from the 1950s to the 1970s, migration flowed towards other European countries, mainly the Federal Republic of Germany, where there was a labor shortage in the rebuilding process after the second world war.
Greece is the latest to see the mercury top 40C, with the islands of Rhodes and Corfu hit by wildfires that have led to mass evacuations as the summer holiday season gets underway.