Aylan

When I look back at 2015, I particularly remember a number of incidents. 

Baking börek is not rocket science. Any idiot can do it. It is a trap for girls. Have you ever seen a man say he will learn how to make börek so his marriage can last? Börek is a Turkish pastry. We even have a song for it: ?Börekler açar?m sana,? (I will make böreks for you) by Nazan Öncel. I was going to give the link to the song but I listened to it and decided not to.

Three people, including a child, drowned when a boat carrying some 100 migrants capsized off Greece early on Sept. 13, the Athens News Agency reported.

Come, let me tell you about the current situation on the Aegean Sea where Aylan died: The trafficking is so intense that disasters like the one lived on the boat where Aylan died occurring is less of a surprise than them not happening. In wars, first the truths die, then the children. Aylan was the latest death!

The aunt of a drowned Syrian boy whose death has sparked global outrage about the plight of refugees in Europe says she still hopes to bring the rest of her family to Canada.
                   

The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body washed up on a Turkish beach in an image that shocked the world returned to his hometown Kobane on Sept. 4 to bury his family.

Turkish authorities have arrested four suspected traffickers over the deaths of 12 Syrian migrants in two boat sinkings, including a three-year-old boy whose image became a viral symbol of the tragedy of refugees, a report said on Sept.3.

He would dream of being a veterinarian perhaps. Or maybe an engineer. From the war-torn city of Kobane, he and his family had come to the resort town of Bodrum. He imagined growing up there. Going to school, playing with cats on the streets, talking to the Yal?kavak farmers every Thursday while they put up their stands for the weekly farmers? market. ?Life could be nice here,? he imagined. 

As international reverberations continued on Thursday in the wake of a heart-wrenching image of a drowned toddler face down on an eponymous beach on Turkey’s Aegean coast, reports emerged that Turkish authorities actually blocked the child’s family from legally emigrating to Canada!