Greece. Idomeni. 2016. The Idomeni refugee camp on the Greece-Macedonia border. In 2015 and early 2016, the EU allowed in more than a million refugees, mostly from Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and then brokered a deal with Turkey to stem the flow across the Aegean Sea. Those who decided to leave their war-torn countries too late found themselves with few options, and many refugees got stuck in Idomeni, as Macedonia sealed its border with a barbed-wire fence.