Refugee camp

The serious injury of a Syrian migrant of Kurdish origin, who was reportedly hit by a police van at the Idomeni refugee camp, Monday, has caused tempers to rise among the refugees and migrants at the camp.

A 40-year old Syrian-Kurd migrant is in critical condition after reportedly being hit by a police car at Idomeni refugee camp. According to police sources, the police car did not hit the man but he fell off a scaffolding in front of a patrol vehicle. The 40-year old was immediately rushed to Kilkis hospital and then to the ‘Papageorgiou Hospital’ in Thessaloniki.

The Housing Development Administration of Turkey (TOK?) has been building three new "giant container cities" for Syrians in the southern Turkish provinces of Hatay and Kahramanmara?, hosting up to 40,000 refugees.

The container city being built in Kahramanmara? has already led to angry protests from local Alevis, who fear that the province's sensitive demography will be unsettled.

Macedonian police used tear gas to push back hundreds of migrants from a border fence at a sprawling refugee camp on the Greek side of the frontier on April 10, a Reuters witness said. 

A camp with a capacity of 5,000 people will be built in the western province of Manisa to accommodate migrants readmitted to Turkey, Turkish Red Crescent Deputy Chair Kerem K?n?k has said.

The overall position of the Greek government is getting dire by the day. According to a note issued by the Greek Foreign Ministry, the refugee crisis is estimated to cost the Greek state up to 1.8 billion Euros.

The refugees and immigrants are gradually being persuaded to leave Idomeni refugee camp and be transferred to refugee centers created in mainland Greece. But, it seems they are not always welcomed by the local residents.

The Greek government has said it expects 30,000 to enter the country within the next 20 days, as it announced plans to build housing facilities to accommodate the increased numbers across the mainland. The spokesperson for the Coordination of Refugees, George Kyritsis set the relocation of refugees to the existing reception centers around the country as top priority.

At present, Bulgaria houses 955 foreigners at temporary centres for accommodation run by the State Agency for Refugees (DAB).

This was stated on Tuesday by Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova in a response to a question of MP from the ruling coalition.

Greek Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroublis likened the situation in the Idomeni refugee camp in northern Greece to a ‘modern Dachau’. Kouroublis promised he would everything he could to offer health coverage to the refugees trapped in the camp.