The number of people who have been forced to flee war, violence and persecution looks set to soar in 2015 past last year's record of nearly 60 million, the UN said Friday. The UN refugee agency released a report showing rocketing numbers of people living as refugees, asylum seekers or...

(Amnesty)- A former detainee holds up a label from one of the items provided to refugees held in the partly EU-funded Erzurum Deportation Centre in eastern Turkey The European Union (EU) is in danger of being complicit in serious human rights violations against refugees and...

 Istanbul (dpa) - Turkey will start imposing visa requirements on Syrians trying to enter the country, a senior government official said Thursday, as negotiations stepped up between Ankara and the European Union to clamp down on migrant flows. Turkey has largely maintained an "open door...

Mohammed, 22, has lived in Turkey for four years since fleeing Syria, just months after the civil war erupted that has torn his homeland apart. But unlike hundreds of thousands of others who this year crossed the Aegean Sea in search of better lives in Europe, he has no plans to leave. "I...