Pathway to freedom: hostile journey awaits Afghans fleeing the Taliban

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : But for the Afghans fleeing the Taliban, this inhospitable route - traversing Pakistan, Iran, Turkey and into the Balkans - is the pathway, they believe, to freedom.
43% : From here they move south, then cross over into Iran from towns such as Mashkel, travelling across the hostile, mountainous terrain between the two countries.
43% : So now the government has sent many forces to the border with Iran, and even those who make it across into Turkey are getting captured and sent back to the Iran side.
41% : Pakistan has almost completed a wall along its notoriously porous border with Afghanistan, Turkey has built a 93-mile (150km) wall along its border with Iran, and Greece has also just built a border wall.
41% : "And when people get that desperate, the borders with Iran and Pakistan will mean nothing."
39% : There are multiple entry points into Iran, but all take the refugees up into Iranshah, where they make the arduous 1,400-mile journey across the country and are dropped close to the Van border region of Turkey.
39% : Turkey, long seen as the entry point into Europe, has also embarked on a ferocious crackdown on Afghan refugees attempting to cross over from Iran.
31% : A more treacherous route for Afghan refugees is to cross directly to Iran from Nimruz and Herat provinces.
30% : Afghans who have recently reached the country's newly built three-metre-high concrete border wall are being violently detained and pushed back into Iran.
29% : Iran has been accused of collaborating with the Taliban in recent days to halt the flow of Afghans trying to get into the country, with dozens captured and deported back to Afghanistan.

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