In port where trade is so prevalent gangs block-book hotels for refugees and boats leave nightly,they say dismal weather will limit sea crossingsTurkey-based smugglers helping to facilitate Europe’s biggest mass migration since the second world war anxiety that stormier conditions in the eastern Mediterranean will force them to suspend the majority of their operations in the coming weeks, raising the possibility of a meaningful drop in the flow of refugees to Europe during the winter.
As European leaders gathering hundreds of miles away in Brussels called for fiercer protection of the Greek coastline, or smugglers in Turkey said it was not the threat of European navies that concerned them – but the weather.
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Source: theguardian.com