- Burak Bekdil
- September 10, 2017
- Paper No. 583
Almost all the โpoorโ illegal migrants on the Greek islands want to go to Germany, where they have heard from friends and relatives that they will be the best paid for being refugees. The clichรฉ โthe-poor-souls-are-fleeing-war-in-their-native-countryโ is becoming less and less convincing by the day. True, most Syrians fled to Turkey after the start of civil war in their country. But is flight from war their motivation as they proceed onwards to Greece, Serbia, Hungary, and Austria?