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It was September 2, 2015 when the corpse of the little Syrian Aylan Kurdi was washed ashore on the Turkish coast. The boy drowned in a shipwreck in the Aegean with his brother Galip, Rehana’s mother and nine other refugees.
The photo of the boy lying with his head down in the wet sand traveled around the world in a matter of hours and caused a stir.
Only the father of the Eilan family, Abdullah Kurdi, survived the wreck of the makeshift inflatable boat when everyone tried to reach Kos, a gateway to the European Union, from the luxurious seaside resort of Bodrum.
The Kurdi family had fled the war in their country since 2011.
Five years later, the boy’s aunt, Tima Kurdi, urges that the plight of the refugees not be forgotten.
They had “decided to take the risk … to go somewhere where they would find, as they thought, security and hope,” Tima Kurdi told a news conference with the German NGO Sea-Eye in Regensburg, southwest. Germany.
“We cannot close our eyes and turn our backs,” he told the refugees.
“People all over the world continue to suffer and the situation has gotten even worse … They are asking for help,” he added.
“On September 2, 2015, I heard the tragic news.” My sister-in-law and my two nieces had drowned, “Eilan’s aunt said, her voice cracking with emotion to the point that she had to interrupt her speech.
“The photo of my nephew Ilan Kurdi, the boy from the beach, was in all the media in the world. “And that day, in my first phone call with my brother Abdullah, who had lost his entire family … he told me: ‘My son’s photo is a wake-up call,'” added Tima. who was born in Syria and has lived in Canada for a long time.
“Our tragedy is sadly one among many others,” he said. “I decided to make my voice heard for all those who suffer and have no voice. I said to myself: ‘since I couldn’t save my family, let me save others.’
Tima Kurdi will participate in a demonstration in Berlin started by Sea-Eye tomorrow, Wednesday, the anniversary of the child’s death. Commemorative events are also planned in other German cities, including Cologne and Hamburg.
The German non-governmental organization Sea-Eye has changed the name of the humanitarian rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean, naming it in honor of 3-year-old Syros. She also announced today that she wants to send a second ship before the end of the year for rescue operations for migrants starting their journey from Libya. This ship will be named after her brother Eilan.
In 2015, the EU experienced a large influx of immigrants across the Mediterranean.
According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), more than a million people arrived in Europe, more than 850,000 through Greece. Refugees and migrants came mainly from Syria (56%), Afghanistan (24%) and Iraq (10%).
The decrease in the arrival of refugees after 2015 did not end the tragedies of the Mediterranean, nor the disputes over the reception of these men, women and children.
With information from APE
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