TURKEY-EUROPE-MIGRANTS

Migrants walk along the hardshoulder of a highway as they make their way from the Iranian border the city of Tatvan, around 200km away, in the eastern Lake Van region of Turkey on August 24, 2020. - Gravestones scribbled with identity numbers are all that remain of dozens of migrants aboard a boat that sank in a Turkish lake as they struggled to make it to Europe. Lake Van, a vast body of water nearly seven times the size of Lake Geneva, has become a death trap for Afghan, Pakistani and other migrants seeking security and work.The sinking of two boats in June and last December, claiming 68 lives in all, underscores the perils of a route they use to circumnavigate checkpoints set up across the rugged eastern terrain of Turkey, not far from Iran. Hiding on the boat with 60 others that sank on June 27 was Mehdi Mosin, then just 17. (Photo by BULENT KILIC / AFP) (Photo by BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images)