"When such decisions are made, we have deal with the consequences of such decisions, we have to save children’s lives. They [the children] don’t know at the moment whether they can go forward or go back so their lives are on hold. And it’s simply not fair to have an approach to children that changes so rapidly all the time," Crowe said.
The spokesperson also added that 40 percent of the refugees and migrants were children, saying that "this is really a children’s crisis."
Crowe went on saying that UNICEF is currently present "in a very big way" in Turkey, adding that UNICEF activities are dealing with the crisis in Syria.
"We will continue to be as flexible as this very fast evolving crisis demands of us," the spokesperson said.
The European Union is currently struggling to manage a massive refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The EU border agency Frontex recorded more than 1.8 million illegal border crossings into the bloc in 2015. Greece is the main transit route for refugees coming across the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
