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Migrants, again...
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Guinevere | Report | 12 Sep 2015 06:24 |
On Sky news the reporter went on a refugee boat from Turkey to Lesbos. She interviewed a heart surgeon from Damascus fleeing with his wife and 3 children. How bad must it be for him to take that risk? |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 12 Sep 2015 04:12 |
I think I saw on the news that some were being thrown food parcels, if that isn't enough to degrade those poor people even more and causes riots and injury, I don't know what is. No wonder they want to move in as soon as they can. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 11 Sep 2015 11:11 |
Ration books would be better. The problem about that is that they/the majority don't want to be registered in Hungary. |
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°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o° | Report | 11 Sep 2015 10:57 |
Whilst I'm very much against these people being sent to the UK, I'm also against the way they're being treated in Hungary |
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Dermot | Report | 11 Sep 2015 08:32 |
Most of my British friends are very nice too. ;-) |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 10 Sep 2015 23:59 |
My son lived in Turkey for a year he was fine :-D :-D |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 10 Sep 2015 23:56 |
Ann, my friend and her daughter have just come back from a holiday in Turkey and they were ok. They stayed close to the hotel at night instead of going out so much. (My friend is in her 40s and her daughter early 20s) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 10 Sep 2015 17:43 |
I was in Hama, Syria 1982. |
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Guinevere | Report | 10 Sep 2015 16:42 |
That's why the refugees are leaving. They aren't empty threats in Syria. |
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Dermot | Report | 10 Sep 2015 16:40 |
Everyone in this world, no matter how badly behaved, deserves at least a bit of sympathy & affectionate good will. |
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magpie | Report | 10 Sep 2015 12:37 |
Fine to be contemptuous from a place of safety, we can all do that, but when you live on the front line, as lots of people did, and now do, it's less easy to be so brave and very easy to be terrified. |
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Guinevere | Report | 10 Sep 2015 10:20 |
The threats from IS are meant to terrify us as were the threats from the IRA, I treat both with equal contempt. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 10 Sep 2015 10:06 |
I know that is sensible and I am sure she will be fine but it was just a fleeting thought. She is in a tourist area on a group holiday. |
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Lynda ~ | Report | 10 Sep 2015 09:47 |
Ann, there are troubles all over the world.I was in Sri Lanka when there were bombings, in Oxford Street when the Wimpey bomb went off, family were in the vicinity of London when the July 7th bombs went off, although we were caught up in these incidents, we never saw a thing. Turkey is a big place, tourist areas are well guarded. If your daughter felt unsafe, I'm sure they would be on a plane home. |
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Rambling | Report | 10 Sep 2015 09:38 |
Sorry Ann :-( But like most tourists most places she will be safe I'm sure. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 10 Sep 2015 09:34 |
It's a large country Ann. Get the map out to see where she is v the reported incidents. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 10 Sep 2015 09:24 |
OH I wish I had not seen that. Our daughter is on holiday in turkey this week. :-( |
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Rambling | Report | 10 Sep 2015 09:05 |
Turkey was and is not a safe option, it was mentioned as such on the other thread as being ok'd for travel by the Foreign Office advice, a comment which was accurate in so much as this line applies |
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Guinevere | Report | 10 Sep 2015 08:15 |
Yes, it does, rather. |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 10 Sep 2015 08:14 |
....and when you learn that their real surname is Shenu, but Kurdi had been used in Turkey because of their ethnic background, it puts a new slant on things.... |
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