A paramilitary police officer looks at the body of Aylan,
a three-year-old Syrian boy, after it washed up on a
Turkish beach.
GCC ‘lacks refugee help programmes’
MANAMA, September 4, 2015
A lack of refugee programmes in Gulf states is one of the main reasons thousands of Syrians and Iraqis flee to Europe, according to a leading analyst. Europe was the ‘natural’ choice for migrants because of a liberal social welfare system, said Institute for Near East and Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA) research and development director Dr Theodore Karasik, reported the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.
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