By Canadian Press

Alan Kurdi’s aunt has mixed feelings after sentencing in his case

Mar 16, 2020 | 4:38 PM

VANCOUVER — The aunt of three-year-old Alan Kurdi says she has mixed feelings after three people were sentenced in the human smuggling case that resulted in the deaths of her nephew, his brother and mother as they fled Syria in 2015.

Tima Kurdi of Coquitlam, B.C., says the sentences bring small comfort because people still want to get out of war zones and there are people who take advantage of them.

She says she is also reliving the tragedy after receiving news of the sentencing from her brother in Iraq.

The English-language website of the official Turkish news agency Anadolu reported on Friday that three organizers of the human trafficking ring involved in the Kurdi case were each sentenced to 125 years in prison.

The photo of Alan’s tiny body washed up on a Turkish beach focused global attention on the Syrian refugee crisis.

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His five-year-old brother and mother also died when the boat there were in capsized as they tried to make their way to Greece.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 16, 2020.

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