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Slide 7 of 7
Award of Excellence: Untitled
November 16, 2015
More than 1 million refugees arrived to Europe in 2015. Not since the Second World War had so many people been forced to flee their homes and the refugee crisis became the biggest political challenge all over Europe. The vast majority of the refugees sailed from Turkey to the northern coast of Lesbos. The small Greek islands is just 10 kilometers away from the Turkish coast but the crossing can be very dangerous. Most refugees made the journey in small rubber dinghies but sometimes larger boats arrived such as this one on the 16th of November 2015, where about hundred people mainly from Syria and Iraq were crammed together.