[Rudaw] The bodies of two Kurdish refugees who died trying to reach Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
were discovered in Greece and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
on Tuesday, the director of a refugee rights organization has told Rudaw.
The dead have been identified as Saywan Salih, a 30-year-old from Sardasht in Iranian Kurdistan, and Shkar Mohammed, a 31-year-old from Qaladze, a town in the Sulaimani province of the Kurdistan Region.
"After their families informed our office of their whereabouts, we discovered them after two days of search by our representatives in Greece and Turkey," Ari Jalal, head of The Summit Foundation for Refugee and Displaced Affairs (Lutka) said on Wednesday. "They have died in two separate incidents."
Salih's body was discovered on the Ottoman Turkish shores of Turkey's Aegean sea, Jalal said; "according to medical reports, he died of a stroke."
Mohammed's body was "discovered in a dense forest near the Greek port city of Thessaloniki," where he died "due to breathing problems," a medical report said.
"We will hand over the medical reports to their families in the near future," Jalal said, adding that "the bodies will be repatriated once legal procedures have finished."
Traveling illegally is a risky business. Herewith some statistics: According to data provided by the Summit Foundation, more than 15,000 Iraqis have sought refuge abroad in 2020. At least ten Iraqis have died in that time, another 15 are missing.
The foundation estimates that over 500,000 Iraqis have left their home country since 2014, the year Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) swept through Iraq. Over 400 Iraqis have died leaving the country, while 171 more are missing. 
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