Arab diaspora

Reuters has compiled striking photographs testifying to the troubles endured by Syrian refugees throughout 2015 as over 4 million Syrians have become refugees and over 12 million are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance.

Turkey should not be admitted to the European Union, Czech President Milo? Zeman has said, criticizing the rapprochement between the EU and Ankara following the recent joint summit to stem the refugee crisis. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s advisor Burhan Kuzu commented on his Twitter account about the refugee agreement achieved between the EU and Turkey pn November 29.

He stated that the EU yielded under Turkey’s threat to open its borders to refugees and decided to provide Turkey with financial support for the migrant crisis.

Bulgarian authorities detained nine Syrian refugees hidden in a Romanian truck in the Pass of the Republic (also known as Hainboaz) in central Bulgaria on Saturday.

Four young men, four women and a one-year-old child were detained after drivers travelling through the pass had informed police that there were immigrants in the truck.

After a long period of mutual neglect, EU and Turkey look ready for a marriage of convenience thanks to the recent refugee crisis.

The United Nations took aim on Nov. 23 at politicians who want to end the resettlement of Syrian refugees following the Paris attacks, saying the "rhetoric" showed disrespect and that there can be no discrimination.

The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Nov. 19 to suspend Obama's program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them.

Turkey has deported some of the eight suspected members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who were detained in Istanbul this week, but others are still in custody, a government official said on Nov. 19.

The hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees pouring into Europe can be trained to form an army and return to "liberate" their homeland, Poland's new foreign minister said on Nov. 15.

Talking to reporters in Antalya on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made an important warning to European nations: No one should mix up the terrorists that staged the Paris attacks and the people seeking refuge in Europe fleeing the attacks by the very same groups back in their homeland.