At least 80,000 Syrian refugees are stuck at the buffer zone between Greece and Turkey. Here's what they say about their impending journey to Europe.
Sitting in the mud, with nothing but a piece of plastic over their heads, Mohammed and his family are waiting at the Turkey-Greece border. His wife, his children, his mother and his siblings. Twelve of them are making the journey together.
The Greek authorities fired tear gas shells at a large group of Syrian refugees who were trying to cross over from the Turkish border. "We like Turkey, we like the Turkish people, but here we cannot make our ends meet. Life is too expensive, that’s why we want to go to Europe. We already have relatives in the Netherlands. We want to join them." says Mohammad.Mothers are carrying children of all age groups, as young as a few months old, hoping to enter Greece without hinderance.
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