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Europe
Lesbos: 'We want our island back'
2020-01-26
[DW] More than 50,000 refugees are stuck on the Greek islands, living in appalling conditions. The situation is also impacting on the local population, who want change. Max Zander reports from Lesbos.

More than four years after the start of the refugee crisis, the situation on Lesbos has barely improved. Back in 2015, there were days when thousands of refugees landed on the beaches in the north of the island, where the Ottoman Turkish coastline is just 10 kilometers away. At first, the new arrivals were allowed immediately to travel on. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
since 2016, when the EU and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
Posted by:trailing wife

#4  Wake me when the local population lipstick consumption stats are released.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2020-01-26 19:42  

#3  ^ No, really, I can spell... but there was once a gal... like an unusually fit, slightly larger than life Greek statue she was, not that I had the sense to notice that at the time, let alone to tell her so. Launched a thousand ships... or a couple of slips, at any rate. Maudlin sigh.
Posted by: Chinegum the Great4821   2020-01-26 17:09  

#2  "Well, speaking of Helenophilia...
And Ottoman memorabilia...
It won't require violence
To win back those islands,
For roaming's restoring Rumelia."
Posted by: Chinegum the Great4821   2020-01-26 04:00  

#1  include Lesbos, Samos, and Chios

Just to think that these places of poetry & myth are polluted by Muzelimbs!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-01-26 03:15  

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