Thursday 29 October 2015

The 105-year-old Afghan woman struggling to find asylum in Europe

Refugee crisis: The 105-year-old Afghan woman struggling to find asylum in Europe | Europe | News | The Independent

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Uzbeki and her family are just a small part of an enormous movement of people from Afghanistan who have fled to Europe this year, most of whom have traveled via Turkey and onwards on what has been called the "Black Route." Afghans make up about 20 percent of the 560,000-plus arrivals by sea that Greece has seen in 2015, second only to Syrians fleeing their country's civil war. There are more than three times as many Afghans asylum-seekers as from the next-largest group, Iraqis.

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