Aunt of drowned Syrian boys continues fight

The child was on board a boat full of refugees trying to make it to safety in Europe.

The body of Aylan Kurdi, who drowned along with his mother Rehan and his five-year-old brother Ghalib, washed up on a beach not far from the Turkish resort town of Bodrum on Wednesday.

Their city, Kobani, is in the grip of Isis, a group famed for beheading journalists and aid workers, throwing gay people from buildings and burning people alive.

“I received a phone call from police asking them to get me a doctor, but I told them there was none on the island”. His wife and sons lost their lives along with nine others after their boats capsized. They have to do more to stop the smugglers from using this type of boats – they should have some rules or regulations. Abdullah has expressed his intentions to remain in Turkey to be with his family instead of migrating to Canada to be with his sister.

He looks as though he is asleep – perhaps taking a nap before running off to play with his friends. The three bodies were taken by ambulance from Turkey to Syria.

Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to today set out details of the Government’s plans to let thousands of Syrian refugees into Britain.

Noting that she has photographed and witnessed many migrant incidents since 2003 in this region, which caused much pain and sorrow in her heart, she said the refugee issue has gone beyond the borders of Turkey and become an worldwide problem. The European Union is trying for equal distribution of these refugees, however, and credit goes to Austria and Germany who are receiving refugees with open arms. Like Aylan, they all sleep on the shores of the collective conscience of this world; the world that is so full of greed, treachery, arrogance and petty egos of the world leaders.

But the question arises, why someone would leave their home?

“Can you imagine? I took my own children for death”. Countries close the doors to them.

“Downing Street spent yesterday scrambling to match public outrage and calls, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, for Britain to do more to alleviate the human cost of Europe’s gravest postwar migration crisis“.

Some people might not care. I’m sure you have photos and… The United Kingdom government spends £50 billion on defence every year. Some of the youngest among them have paid the highest price.

And then it occurred to me – perhaps they don’t.

She thanked her supporters before leaving the stage with the words, “I don’t know what to say anymore”.

Millions of people these days are made to move from their land, parting with their possessions and their homes. The three members of the Kurdi family died as they tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea, hoping to get to Greece.

Their pictures, their names will never be known by us. Until the sight of a little boy on a beach reminds us that looking away can cost lives, too.