Relatives of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy whose lifeless body was photographed washed up on the shores of a Turkish beach earlier this year, will start a new life in Canada on Monday, when they finally arrive in Vancouver.
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“Two weeks when I told them about the date, the flight and stuff, to them, it’s the most longest two weeks ever”, Kurdi told CBC.
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“I’m calling it Kurdi Hair Design”, says Kurdi about the salon, nestled between a children’s reading centre and an optometry clinic in a nondescript strip mall in Port Coquitlam, B.C.
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A photo of the boy’s body face down in the surf sparked worldwide sorrow and momentum to help Syrian refugees.
Kurdi was a barber in Kobani, Syria, before he and his family fled to Turkey to escape “barrel bombs, explosions and also Daesh” – another name for the militant group that calls itself the Islamic State. Aylan died along his five-year-old brother and his mother trying to reach Greece.
“That hurts me even more”, she says, tears slowly streaming down her face.
The federal Liberals’ come-from-behind election victory in October soon saw Canada pledge to welcome 25,000 refugees by the end of the year, though that deadline was extended to the beginning of March due in part to security concerns raised in the wake of the attacks in Paris. Last year’s was given by British Ebola survivor William Pooley, who said, “Christmas should focus our minds on our kinship with people in all corners of the globe”. His mother Rehanna and brother Galeb, 5, also died in the accident.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada rejected an initial application from Tima to bring Mohammad and his family to Canada, saying it was missing the necessary paperwork. The family has been split for over half a year: Mohammed has been residing in Germany while his family members are in Turkey. He has yet to meet his youngest child, who was born in July, but the family will reunite in Frankfurt before flying to Canada. “Happy for them, for the kids to see their smiles”.
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She hopes their brother Abdullah, who left Turkey after his family’s deaths and now lives in Kurdistan, will eventually join them. “I’m really speechless. I don’t know what else to say”, she said. “I know we can do it”.
