http://www.wsj.com/articles/image-of-syrian-boy-washed-up-on-beach-hits-hard-1441282847Des détails intéressants. La famille était en Turquie depuis 3 ans, à l'abri de la guerre. Les motivations pour l'immigration clandestine en Europe étaient d'ordre économique et médicales :
Ms. Kurdi, speaking Thursday in a Vancouver suburb, said that their father, still in Syria, had suggested Abdullah go to Europe to get his damaged teeth fixed and find a way to help his family leave Turkey. She said she began wiring her brother money three weeks ago, in €1,000 ($1,100) amounts, to help pay for the trip.
Shortly after, she said her brother called her and said he wanted to bring his whole family to Europe, as his wife wasn’t able to support their two boys alone in Istanbul.
The father of 3-year-old Aylan Kurdi, whose body washed ashore on a Turkish beach, spoke with reporters after harrowing images of his dead son were published across the globe. Image: Associated Press
“If we go, we go all of us,” Ms. Kurdi recounted him telling her. She said she spoke to his wife last week, who told her she was scared of the water and couldn’t swim.
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Mr. Kurdi said he had paid smugglers some €4,000 for safe passage to Greece.