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| [Photo belonging to the same article - 5/06/2013] |
Some of the Syrians fleeing the
conflict in their country have crossed Turkey aiming for Greece, in order to
claim asylum in the European Union. But to get there they have to take to boats
- and there have been persistent reports of Greek officials pushing them back
into Turkish waters, sometimes with fatal results.
"Everything we would do for our families and our fathers, we do the same
thing for these people. We bury them in the Islamic way," says Ekrem
Serif-Oamadoglou, as he points to 400 freshly dug graves clustered on the remote
hillside.
