Syriacs [Assyrians] are calling on Turkey to let their relatives who have fled from Syria to have a stamp that allows them to migrate to European countries where large Syriac communities are living. The number of Syriacs fleeing to Turkey, particularly from the border city of Qamishli, has massively increased after the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) spread throughout Northern Syria. Syriacs mostly transit from Turkey to Europe through illegal routes by paying between five and 10 thousand-euros to smugglers and human trafficking networks. However, countries such as Germany and Sweden refuse the entry of Syriacs from legal routes without an entry stamp to Turkey. "Our relatives have fled to Europe. But Sweden and Germany will not give us visas without an entry stamp to Turkey in our passports. Turkey should find a solution to this. We did not come under normal conditions, we fled for our lives," Nahir Corc, a Syriac refugee temporarily living with four other families in Midyat's Syriac Cultural Association told H