A Syrian refugee family, who have been apart for more than a year, are fighting for the right to be reunited.
Riba fled Syria with her brother and reached Stuttgart in Germany. By the time her husband, Nazeem, tried to take their children on the same journey, the Balkan route had shut and they got trapped in Greece.
Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee reports from Thessaloniki.
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The Balkans , also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria from the Serbian–Bulgarian border to the Black Sea coast. The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian Sea in the southwest, the Aegean Sea in the south, the Turkish Straits in the east, and the Black Sea in the northeast. The term has acquired a stigmatized and pejorative meaning related to the process of Balkanization, and hence the preferred alternative term used for the region is Southeast Europe.