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In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Representatives of migrants in Edirne told journalists that they wanted to talk to Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu. AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
The stopping of migrants in Turkey's border city Edirne caused a massive traffic jam on Sept. 18. There were as many as 1,500 migrants sleeping near the main highway, according to Doğan News Agency. Photo: Levent Kulu - Hürriyet
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
"There on Turkey's border with Greece, migrants can say everything to the press and cameras," Governor Şahin said. "But a crossing is not possible. We are waiting now. There is no chance that they would be allowed into Greece." AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
They have been camping out for days in a bid to cross into EU nations Greece or Bulgaria, had been told earlier by Edirne Gov. Dursun Ali Şahin that 200 of them would be allowed to visit the Greek border. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
In Istanbul, hundreds of migrants continued to camp out a large mosque near the city’s Esenler bus station in the hope of joining their compatriots in Edirne. Anis Issa, a 22-year-old from Aleppo, said police weren’t letting anyone in or out. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Fearing that Turkish police would send them back to Istanbul, around 500 migrants arrived in a meadow in Edirne's Sarayiçi neighborhood late Sept. 18, where the famed oil wrestling championship has traditionally been held. Photo: Berk Özkan - Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Customs and Commerce Minister Cenap Aşçı told that Turkey can only allow the migrants' crossing only if the destination country accepts them. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
The plight of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean basin was added Sept. 18 to the agenda of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Proposed by Turkey, "Global awareness of the tragedies of irregular migrants in the Mediterranean basin with specific emphasis on Syrian asylum seekers" will be considered during the 193-member body's yearly session that will last until September 2016. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
"The dramatic situation in the Mediterranean basin ... requires a collective and comprehensive response based on principles of humanity, respect for human rights, access to asylum and protection, solidarity and burden-sharing," Turkey said in the explanatory memorandum annexed to the proposal. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
The region is facing its biggest refugee crisis in decades, with thousands of asylum seekers from Middle Eastern and African countries trying to flee war and persecution. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Syrians are a majority of the asylum seekers who are trying to flee a civil war that has claimed more than 250,000 lives since 2011, and resulted in one of the largest refugee exoduses since the Second World War. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Asylum-seekers who fled westward after being beaten back by tear gas and water cannon on the Hungarian-Serbian border just days earlier found themselves being returned to Serbia, where their ordeal began, after Croatia declared it could not handle the influx. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
The EU’s failure to find a unified response to the crisis left this tiny Balkan nation, one of the poorest in the European Union, squeezed between the blockades thrown up by Hungary and Slovenia and the unending flood of people flowing north from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
UNHCR says more than 442,440 people have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe this year and 2,921 have died trying. The International Organization for Migration puts those figures at 473,887 and 2,812. Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Photo: Anadolu Agency
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
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In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
AP Photo/Emrah Gurel
In photos: Turkey halts hundreds of migrants at EU's borders
Hundreds of migrants have been stopped by Turkish law enforcement on a highway near the Turkish border city of Edirne, as bickering governments in the European Union shut border crossings. Click through for the photo story of the migrant drama in Turkey's northwest. Photo: Berk Özkan - Anadolu Agency
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