GREECE. Kos. 2016. Refugees come ashore on a tourist beach in the Greek island of Kos. Kos is only 5 miles from the Turkish town of Bodrum where most of the refugees leave from.
According to numbers released by the UNHCR so far in 2015 ( July 2015) over 225,000 refugees and migrants have arrived by sea in the Mediterranean and around 2,100 are estimated to have died or gone missing while trying to reach Europe.