Kurdish mother, her baby who drowned in Aegean Sea arrive in their hometown
Naila, her young baby Noor and her husband intended to make a journey between Turkey and Greec and then to Europe, with 33 more migrants on a small boat, but tragically the small boat, capsized on November 28th, 2024.
Dec. 14, 2024
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The bodies of the mother called Naila and her young baby girl called Noor, arrived in Sulaimani Airport in the early hours of Saturday morning, then later taken back to their hometown Sarwchawa where the traditional burial ceremony took place after the prayers were read, they were buried side by side in the Sarchawa cemetery.
Naila, her young baby Noor and her husband intended to make a journey between Turkey and Greec and then to Europe, with 33 more migrants on a small boat, but tragically the small boat, capsized on November 28th, 2024.
Read More: Kurdish mother and infant among victims of migrant boat tragedy in Aegean Sea
“The smuggler cheated us because we agreed the boat should carry only 15 people, but he put 33 people,” Noor's father, who survived, stated to Kurdistan 24.
After doing the DNA test, the father was given back the bodies of his young baby girl and wife, to bring them back to Kurdistan Region.
Since the beginning of this year, 46 Kurdistan Regional citizens drowned in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas, from that number, up until now only 14 bodies were not found.
The Great Britain's Home Secretary (HO), Yvette Cooper recently made several important visits to Kurdistan Region and European countries to discuss many security issues including illegal migration and human trafficking.
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The UK Home Office made an agreement to tackle smuggling people, in a message posted by the HO through X platform showing the actions are in place with Iraq.
ANNOUNCED: Home Secretary @YvetteCooperMP has signed a landmark security agreement with Iraq.
— Home Office (@ukhomeoffice) November 28, 2024
Joint work between the UK and Iraq will target people and drug-smuggling gangs, strengthen border security co-operation and tackle serious and organised crime.
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On Tuesday, December 10th, 2024, Ms. Cooper met with Belgium's Interior Minister, Annelies Verlinden, Asylum- Migration Minister, Nicole de Moor as well as many European Ministers of Interior, leaders and agencies at Carlton Gardens in London, UK.
UK and Germany singed a plan about sharing intelligence and expertise against smugglers and human-trafficking gangs who organise dangerous journeys for migrants across the English Channel in small boats.
Following Tuesday meeting, the HO Secretary posted a message through X platform, warning whoever had hands in smuggling and human trafficking to pursue them & their supply chains.
In the same meeting a deal has been made between the UK and German governments, as Cooper said, "to save innocent lives", she and her German counterpart, Interior Minister, Nancy Faeser, signed a joint action-plan, in the outcome of the meeting.
For too long criminal smuggler gangs have undermined our border security & put lives at risk.
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) December 10, 2024
They cannot be allowed to get away with it.
I’ve signed a major new Joint Action Plan with Germany’s @NancyFaeser to pursue people-smugglers & their supply chains and save lives. pic.twitter.com/jlPmAtAKVt