Turkey

• Turkey
• Greece

Urging the EU to push Turkey to stick to its obligations under a 2016 refugee deal, Greece has requested the immediate return to Turkey of almost 2.000 migrants living in camps on the Greek Aegean Islands. Turkey continues to refuse to take back rejected asylum seekers.

• Syria
• Afghanistan
• Turkey

Turkish authorities have detained 415 migrants during a series of raids in the country's largest city, Istanbul. In another operation in the east of the country, another 86 migrants have been intercepted.

• Turkey
• Greece
• Germany

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called on countries around the world to defend the principles of the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. Various experts have expressed concern over the convention being ignored and habitually breached.

• Turkey
• Italy
• Greece

The Greek coast guard along with crews from four passing ships picked up at least 37 migrants from a boat off Crete on Thursday evening. Several people are reportedly still missing.

• Turkey

Turkish authorities again apprehended dozens of irregular migrants in the border province of Van, three days after a similar incident. The group comprised at least 113 migrants, state news agency Anadolu reported. Increased violence and the prospect of civil war in Afghanistan correlate with a rising number of Afghans seeking safety in neighboring countries.

• Turkey
• Greece

Three months ago, 28-year-old Stephanie* flew from Kinshasa to Istanbul to join her husband. To reach Europe, the young woman took a boat from Turkey. She said that her boat was turned back by the Greek coast guard, and that she and the other migrants were threatened with guns. This is her story.

• Iran
• Turkey
• Afghanistan

Turkish authorities have detained a large number of Afghan migrants near the country’s southern border with Iran. Increased violence and the prospect of civil war in Afghanistan have led to fears of an exodus of Afghans seeking safety in neighboring countries.

• United Kingdom
• Turkey
• Syria

A giant puppet representing a Syrian girl is set to travel 8,000 kilometers – from a Turkish city near the Syrian border to England – to raise awareness for the plight of refugee children. Several of her puppeteers are refugees.

• Bangladesh
• Pakistan
• Afghanistan

At least 12 people died and many others were injured on Sunday when their minibus overturned and caught fire in Van province in eastern Turkey. The region near the border with Iran is a common route for migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran.

• Lebanon
• Syria
• Turkey

The vaccination campaign is underway in Turkey, but migrants face an especially large number of challenges on the road to immunization. The government has been keeping a low profile on the issue.

• Greece
• Turkey

The UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Felipe González Morales, has highlighted that public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic cannot have the effect of denying asylum and protection to migrants. He denounced to the Human Rights Council last week the practice of collective expulsions carried out by some countries.

• Greece
• Turkey

Diplomats say the European Commission will propose handing an extra €3.5 billion to help Turkey host Syrian refugees over the next three years. A 2016 migration deal drew stinging criticism from human rights groups.