The Balkan Route

Journal-Advocate: The epic migration story

...first by foot and bus, out of Syria, through Turkey. "And into that sea, the sea of death," he repeats, visibly shaken. He and his two friends boarded rafts to cross the Aegean Sea into Greece. "Then we searched for trains, and if we couldn't get on, we learned to walk along the rail tracks north."

WSWS: Thousands of refugees stuck on the Balkan route