A Syrian child attempting to reach Europe with a group of asylum-seekers claims he was violently pushed back from Greece to Turkey. A second child in the group, also Syrian, managed to escape the forced return to Turkey. In collaboration with the German news magazine Der Spiegel, The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou has their story.
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