My story continues.”Keywords: migrant crisis, refugeesRELATED NEWS They are refugees, not migrants As refugee departures from Turkey peaked in mid-2015, he set up an Afghan restaurant to cater to those transiting through Istanbul. Majid and his friends used a “captain” — who was paid $1500 a trip to ferry the refugees across. “Over land, it’s impossible to cross from Turkey into Greece, but from Greece to Turkey is very easy.”Majid and his Turkish partner earned about $5,000 a piece for every successful sortie after costs. Its place was taken by a robust network of Afghans, Turks, Kurds, Syrians, Iranians, and Pakistanis, snapped in place to ferry migrants from across the world to the European border.

Source: The Hindu June 19, 2016 20:48 UTC