Karl Kopp

They often end up in places where there is no tradition of caring for young people, keep in mind that many of these teenagers don’t share Western democratic values and face identity problems in a new land.

According to Deidre Berger, some of these young men are sent to shelters in small towns, which only accentuates their sense of isolation. Some flee to Germany’s big cities, thereby avoiding any official scrutiny. Most of these boys experienced horrible human rights violations in the Middle East and during their escape to Europe.

We applied for interim measures ... because the man is in imminent danger if he returns to Turkey, he worked in the oil industry.

Thousands of people are living in limbo and thousands are living in tent camps as winter approaches, this is the way they were living in Greece when they first arrived in Europe.

The situation in the Berlin refugee center is a mess, people wait around all day for a number to register and then are told to come back the next day to do the same thing. They become frustrated and tensions are heightened.

I was in Karlsruhe recently where 2,000 Germans, from a 12-year-old girl to a 90-year-old woman, appeared daily to help the refugees.