With migrants only allowed one backpack each on the smugglers' boats that c...
IZMIR, Turkey - With migrants only allowed one backpack each on the smugglers’ boats that carry them from Turkey to Greece, Ahmed, his wife Hanin and her family packed a few possessions and sent the rest of their belongings to friends.
They were quickly swept up in a flurry of wedding preparations: searching for the perfect dress, struggling to wire money across Western Union offices, planning a two-night party. Their engagement party was in Kilis, right across the border from war-torn Syria. “All the sorrow for my son is in my heart,” said Turki, Hamza and Hanin’s mother. She said her weak heart swelled on dreams of seeing her son again.Ahmed, who studied English literature in Syria to become a translator, worked 14-hour shifts at a textile factory in Izmir where the couple moved after they married. Hanin’s mother packed nuts in a factory while her father sold Syrian cigarettes.
But he saw no option but to leave Turkey, because staying meant he would “keep working in that factory forever”.
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