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| 3 years old Kurdi Child Aylan was going to Europe from Kobani, Syria. But boat capsize his mother and a brother of 12 family member on 02 September-2015 |
Shame! Shame!! Humanity Washed Away...!!!
Photographs
of a toddler’s lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach after a migrant
boat sank sparked an international outcry on social media on Wednesday, in a
poignant image of the refugee crisis
Wearing a red t-shirt and sneakers, the three-year-old Syrian boy was found lying face down on a beach after an inflatable boat carrying 16 refugees capsized off the Turkish coast.
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Dead body found on the beach of Bodrum, Turkey. Boat from Greece to Europe |
Another child
http://news.sky.com/story/1545899/no-camp-no-camp-migrants-forced-off-train
Father of the boy said-
Father of the boy said-
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| Abdullah, father of Alyan Kurdi |
Abdullah
Kurdi says he no longer wants to continue on to Europe and will take the bodies
of his two sons and wife to be buried in home town of Kobani-
The father of the
drowned Syrian boy who was photographed
lying lifeless on a Turkish beach has said he is preparing to take the
bodies of his two sons and wife to be buried in his home town of Kobani.
Abdullah Kurdi, a
Kurdish Syrian who has been in Turkey
for three years and previously lived in Damascus, told
the BBC he no longer had any desire to continue on to Europe.
Speaking outside
the mortuary where the bodies of his two sonswere being held, Kurdi said: “I
just want to see my children for the last time and stay forever with them.”
Three-year-old
Aylan, five-year-old Galip and their mother, Rehan, were among at least 12
people who died on a boat headed for Greece. The boat was part of
a flotilla of small dinghies boarded by passengers at Akyarlar, the closest
point to the Greek Aegean island
of Kos.
The Turkish
state-run news agency Anadolu said police had detained four suspected people
smugglers thought to be linked to the tragedy. Anadolu said the four, including
at least one Syrian citizen, were detained on a beach on the Bodrum peninsula
and would appear in court later on Thursday suspected of acting as
intermediaries for illegal crossings.
The deputy
district governor Ekrem Aylanc told the BBC that the Kurdi family had been in
Turkey for three years before deciding they should move on to Europe. The process of
repatriating the bodies of the three family members is set to begin later on
Thursday, authorities told the broadcaster.
The family are
understood to have been trying to travel
to Canada where relatives had pledged to sponsor their asylum claim.
Mustefa Ebdi, a
journalist in Kobani, said the Kurdi family had been forced to move several
times during the Syrian conflict and left the country in 2012. He said the
correct family name was Shenu, but that Kurdi had been used in Turkeybecause of their
ethnic background.
“They left Damascus in 2012 and headed to Aleppo, and when clashes happened there, they
moved to Kobani,” Ebdi
told AFP. “And again, when clashes [with Islamic State] happened there,
they moved to Turkey.”
“I tried to speak
to him [Abdullah], but I couldn’t because he just started crying,” he added.
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| Alyan and brother |
Speaking to Canadian press onWednesday night, Abdullah Kurdi’s sister Tima, a hairdresser in Vancouver who
emigrated 20 years ago, said the family’s application had been rejected.
“I was trying to sponsor
them, and I have my friends and my neighbours who helped me with the bank
deposits, but we couldn’t get them out, and that is why they went in the boat,”
she said. “I was even paying rent for them in Turkey, but it is horrible the way
they treat Syrians there.”
She posted a Facebook tribute
with pictures of the two small boys, saying: “My deepest condolences to my
brother’s family who suffered a tragic death in search of a better life. Where
is the humanity in the world? They did not deserve this. My heart is broken.
Rest in peace Angels.”
Terry Glavin, a Canadian
journalist, told BBC Radio 5Live that Tima Kurdi had told him how her brother
had desperately tried to save his family.
“There’s a terrible story he
told about swimming from one to the other, finding one [son] who seemed to be
alright and then going to another, finding him drowned … and then going back to
the first boy and finding him drowned,” he said.
How are you supporting people
caught up in the migration crisis?
Tima Kurdi’s local MP, Fin
Donnelly, who supported the family’s bid for asylum in Canada, said
the woman was distraught. “This tragic loss is just heartwrenching to go
through. She was just completely upset and heartbroken.”
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| Aylan, Galip and father Abdullah Kordi |
Donelly said there had been
tentative suggestions about holding a memorial service for the family in Canada, but
nothing had been decided. “She did say that she’s spoken to her brother and
it’s very hard for him to even want to stay alive at this point, knowing what
he’s going through.”
Only applicants who have been
formally designated refugees can make the G5 application that Kurdi’s sister
would have sponsored, and many Syrian Kurds have reported difficulties getting
their applications processed in UNHCR camps in Turkey. Turkey will not issue exit visas to
refugees if they do not have official status.
This week the Turkish
coastguard said it had rescued more than 42,000 people in the Aegean
Sea in the first five months of 2015, and 2,160 in the past week.
More than 100 were pulled from the sea on Wednesday night alone while trying to
reach Kos, the coastguard told AFP.
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