German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on October 19, where they will discuss the situation in the Middle East, German government spokesperson Wolfgang Buechner said. …
The number of people forced to leave their countries because of conflict, persecution, natural disasters or other reasons, as well as those who moved for work or education, has more than tripled in the past 50 years. According to the …
Numbers are reaching 2015 crisis levels again, and are likely to rise further. But will the EU act in time? …
Countries neighboring crisis regions shoulder the real burden of migration and refugees, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday, calling out countries that host a "few hundred refugees" and use them for …
Newly released data confirm that the numbers of Armenians leaving the country are comparable to previous periods of economic and political crisis
He condemns treatment of migrants in Europe
Migrants still tried crossing overnight from Belarus, although in smaller numbers and smaller groups, Polish authorities said on Friday, a day after Belarus cleared the main camps where people from the Middle East had huddled at the border. …
Germany will not take in refugees stranded on the Belarus-Polish border, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said after talks with his Polish counterpart. "If we took in refugees, if we bowed to the pressure and said 'we are …
The Polish Defense Ministry reported Thursday that there had been numerous attempts to cross the border from Belarus. It said on Twitter that around 100 migrants had been detained. As regional leaders consider the next step in …
The Polish border guards used a water cannon and unleashed tear gas on the border with Belarus in response to actions by migrants who started to pelt them with sticks and stones. A group of about 100 migrants on the border with Poland …
Belarus is ready to facilitate the repatriation of refugees stranded on the border with Poland back to their homeland, but they do not want to return home, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus said on Monday according to BelTA news …
Germany’s acting Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the current worsening of the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border and the influx of migrants should be blamed on …
In the three quarters of 2021, 103,000 more Armenians left the country than entered it, according to official data. Armenia's population is 2.963 million people, so this is an extremely alarming figure, because that amounts to about …
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu refuted claims of Ankara's involvement in bringing migrants to Belarus in a recent phone conversation with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, a source in the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on …
Without immediate, substantial action, climate change is projected to have major consequences not only on the economies of Central Asia, but also for regional stability and security
Greece will increase the number of border guards on the country's border with Turkey, fearing a spike in illegal migration linked to the crisis in Afghanistan, officials said Monday. An additional 250 officers will join the …
The European Union should strengthen its support to third countries to prevent illegal migration from Afghanistan, according to a draft of a statement that the interior ministers of the 27 nations released after an emergency meeting in …
The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on migration flows in the EU. Movement restrictions put in place in light of the coronavirus pandemic have led to a reduction in migration, both legal and illegal, as countries have closed …
People who have fled very real dangers now live in catastrophic conditions directly on the border, on the Mexican side. The migrants sleep on concrete close to the bridges that lead to the US. Their only hope is that they can manage to cross …
In recent years, the European Union has protected itself from migrant flows from poverty-stricken and conflict-ridden countries by building what has come to be known as Fortress Europe, including policies of remote …
