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Europe

Family of Alan Kurdi urge for refugee aid five years after tragedy

2020-09-03

[Rudaw] Five years on from his tragic death, the family of Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi have urged the international community to not ignore the plight of refugees.

The refugee crisis received new media attention after images of Kurdi, 3, washed up on a ~~Ottoman~~ Turkish beach spread across the globe.

The toddler drowned with his mother and brother Ghalib, 4, after their boat capsized on the way to Greece on September 2, 2015.

They wouldn’t have drowned if his father hadn’t decided to give up a perfectly satisfactory asylum situation in Turkey for illegal migration during the roughest weather of the year to the gold-laden streets of Angela Merkel’s Germany in an unseaworthy boat.

His death led to calls for European leaders to offer refugees safe and legal passage.

They could instead have condemned the father for the greed and stupidity that led to the deaths of 3/5ths of the family, or Turkey for encouraging the migrants to continue on, but they went for the maximum accusation of the innocent instead.

"We cannot close our eyes and turn our back and walk away from them," his aunt Tima Kurdi said at a presser held by the German migrant rescue group Sea-Eye, AFP reported.

"People all over the world continue to suffer and it's getting worse, not any better. And they are asking for help," she said.

The family are from the Kurdish city of Kobane in northern Syria.

Three individuals were each sentenced to 125 years in prison in mid-March for their involvement in the tragedy a week after they were captured in Adana, southern ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
Sea-Eye named a rescue ship in memory of Kurdi in February 2019.

"Those people are innocent victims, they flee from force, not by choice," said Tima, who founded the Kurdi Foundation, which aims to help refugee children.

...all those who claim to be children, or the half or less who actually are not adult under the law?

"Sadly, our family's tragedy is one of many," she added.

During the height of Europe's refugee crisis, more than 1 million people mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, fled to Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
in 2015, many of them by crossing the Mediterranean in flimsy boats that often sank.

In March, the UN migration agency said an estimated 20,000 people have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean since 2014.

So 2% or so.

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