Hundreds of thousands of migrants owe their lives to one number saved on speed dial

Hundreds of thousands of migrants owe their lives to one number saved on speed dial

Last year more than a million migrants and refugees risked their lives in overcrowded, often barely seaworthy boats to cross the Mediterranean. Most of them were Syrians, making the trip from Turkey to Greece in an attempt to get inside the borders of the European Union. But the Turkey-Greece route—now down to a trickle after…