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By Ben Mathis-Lilley
Abdullah Kurdi leaving a morgue in Turkey on Thursday.
The father of the 3-year-old Syrian drowning victim whose photograph made headlines around the world Wednesday has identified the bodies of the boy, the boy's sister, and his mother at a Turkish morgue, Reuters reports. The man's name is Abdullah Kurdi; his 3-year-old son Aylan*, his 5-year-old son Galip, and his 35-year-old wife Rehan died along with nine others while trying to row to Greece from Turkey. From the AP:
As Slate's Joshua Keating wrote Wednesday, "the death toll resulting from thousands of refugees making the dangerous journey from the Middle East and North Africa into Europe has been swelling for months, and so far, help is not on the way." The Kurdi family's application for legal asylum in Canada was rejected before their attempt to reach Greece. Abdullah Kurdi says he plans to take his family's bodies home to Syria to be buried in the war-torn city of Kobani.
Said Kurdi to reporters at the morgue: "The things that happened to us here, in the country where we took refuge to escape war in our homeland, we want the whole world to see this. We want the worlds attention on us, so that they can prevent the same from happening to others. Let this be the last."
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/09/03/father_of_syrian_migrant_drowning_victim_speaks_in_turkey.html?sid=5388f1c6dd52b8e4110003de&wpsrc=slatest_newsletter
riversedge
(70,341 posts)DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)WTF is going on with hungary? they have these people trapped when germany and other countries are willing to accept them.
shame on you hungary.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Second, Europe is already having financial problems. How can they take refugees and provide for them? I would hope that more then a tent and canned food would be offered. It's one reason Germany has stepped up brcause they are financially sound.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)into their homes.
odd_duck
(107 posts)these people arent feeling Arab countries in dangerously-overcrowded boats because of the wars and misery ("war on terror" that the nations of the West have brought upon them, but rather because they want to have sex with white women, steal white jobs and live off of white welfare because they hate whites and want to be part of the white genocide program.....
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Same with topics about modern human slavery. Gets ZERO discussion here on 'progressive' DU.