Immigration: reopening of the Ionian route

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Alongside the central Mediterranean route, which departs from Libya and Tunisia towards the Italian coasts, and the Balkan land route, an entry route to Europe has reopened: the Ionian sea route, which departs from Turkey or Lebanon, skirts the Greek coasts and arrives in Italy.

It does not replace the first two, it adds to them.

This was highlighted by the shipwreck of February 26 off Crotone, in Calabria, whose toll at this time stands at 63 dead and 81 people saved.

Widely used by Kurds fleeing Turkish persecution in the 1990s, then by Afghans, Iranians and Iraqis in the 2010s, the road had since passed under the radar, to the point that even NGOs, concentrated on the first road , hardly go there.

says Silvia Mancini, of Médecins sans frontières.

Until 2020, only a few hundred migrants from Turkey arrived...

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