Migrants, shipwreck in the Aegean Sea, off the Turkish coast: at least 18 dead refugees – Rai News

Tomorrow the European summit with Turkey

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06 March 2016 at least 18 migrants died in a shipwreck in the Aegean Sea, off the Turkish coast. The Anatolia agency reported, adding that another 15 refugees were rescued by the Coast Guard. The boat had set off from Didim, in the southwest of the country.

Coast Guard saves 13 migrants aboard a boat in the Aegean sea
Rescue operations of the Coast Guard, last night in the Aegean Sea, the CP 292 patrol boat rescued 13 migrants, source Pakistani and Afghan, aboard a boat sunk seeds drifting in the waters of Kos.

Macedonia, other appl the border. Austria: no to quotas
Meanwhile continues the dramatic situation in the so-called Balkan route. The Macedonian authorities have imposed additional restrictions on migrants on its border, allowing the entry into its territory only to those who come from the cities considered by Skopje theater of war. The officials said the Greek security, stating that restrictions in the field of Idomeni the greek-Macedonian border area do not concern such as the Syrians of Aleppo, but those who come from the capital Damascus. According to the same sources, the restrictions also apply to those who come from Baghdad, which are stopped at the border.

Austria meanwhile made it known that it will not participate in the quota system for the redistribution of refugees on the territory European because it has already done enough, said the Austrian Minister of Defense, the Social Democrat Hans Peter Doskozil, in an interview with the Oesterreich newspaper.

These statements are likely to further complicate the European summit with Turkey that held tomorrow in Brussels, which will have on the agenda the management of migratory worst crisis for generations.

Vienna has already been criticized by the EU Commission for having introduced a cap on refugee inputs. Austria, which has 8.5 million inhabitants, has received 90 thousand applications for asylum in 2015 and this year has limited the number by imposing a ceiling of daily requests to screen. “We are taking the majority and accepting richiedendi asylum only 37,500 this year. Now it’s up to others. Because Austria should take refugees from Greece? This would send the wrong signal,” said Doskozil.