Refugee camp

The efforts of mayors of Lesbos, Greece and Lampedusa, Italy during the ongoing refugee crisis was recognized with the most official way as they were awarded the 2016 Olof Palme Prize.

The leader of opposition New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Friday decried the state of the Moria refugee camp on Lesvos during a visit to the eastern Aegean island.

Mitsotakis met with representatives of the local community and residents and sought to encourage them that the refugee crisis will eventually abate and their village return to normal.

A boy browses through the pages of a dictionary at Eleonas refugee camp in Athens, Monday. Switzerland's ambassador to Greece Hans-Rudolf Hodel and Greek Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas distributed the mini lexicons aimed at giving some basic communication information from various languages to migrants in Greece. [Yorgos Karahalis/AP]

Linday Lohan, a Hollywood star known for her colorful lifestyle, has visited Turkey once again, Doğan News Agency has reported. 

Lohan, who was seen with a headscarf in Istanbul's İstinye Park mall, said to reporters she loved Turkey and that Turkey was her second home.

Kawa Mohammed lives in a small tent with his wife and three children in the Kalochori refugee camp on the outskirts of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.

Nearly 180,000 Syrians have been born in Turkey over the last five years, according to Turkey's Health Ministry.

A total of 177,568 Syrians mothers - refugees of the country's bloody civil war - gave birth in Turkey between April 2011 and September 2016, according to the ministry's figures.

English site Guardian is highly critical of the Greek government in dealing the refugees exposed to arctic weather conditions on the island of Lesvos:
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Migrants in a refugee camp in Italy have taken as hostages 25 social workers, reported Reuters.

The migrants blocked the staff in the camp, including doctors and a nurse. Besides, they switched off the power and set the furniture on fire.

The Greek government, along with the UN and the EU’s aid departments are under fire for mismanaging a multimillion-euro fund earmarked for refugees in Greece. Reporter Patrick Kingsley for the online edition of British newspaper The Guardian filed a piece uncovering the extent of the mismanagement.

This image, by Cologne-based Palestinian photojournalist Ali Nouraldin, won second prize in the UNICEF Photo of the Year 2016 awards, it was announced by the jury in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday. The photograph shows refugee children watching a movie in an improvised open-air cinema at the Idomeni refugee camp near the Greek border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).