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Two Syrians have been jailed by a court in Turkey on the departure of Alan Kurdi and four others to four years in jail.

Alan was the Syrian three-year old whose picture, lying dead on a shore that is Turkish, focused world attention on the refugee crisis in September.

Tens of thousands of migrants and refugees arrive from Turkey in Greece.

Alabash and Alfrhad were attempted the same Turkish city, in Bodrum.

Alan’s five-year old brother Galib and his mom Rihan also drowned when the boat sank to the Greek island of Kos during an attempted crossing.

In the most recent attempts to attack the disaster that is migrant, European Council President Donald Tusk is expected to hold talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Mr Tusk has raised the concept of “sending back” migrants who arrive in the Greek isles from Turkey.

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The bodies of nine people, including two babies, have been discovered drowned off the coast of western Turkey, after a boat carrying people to Greece partially capsized, the Turkish coastguard said in a statement. The fibreglass vessel somewhat capsized on Tuesday at 05.35 local time (03.35 GMT) off the coast of Seferihisar in Izmir province, close to the Greek island of Samos. Two individuals were rescued swimming to the coast, the coastguard said.A crackdown on illegal crossing and also the dangerous winter conditions have failed to discourage tens of thousands from boarding flimsy boats and attempting to cross the Mediterranean waves in the first couple of weeks of the entire year.

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Kurdish militants launched a car bomb attack on a police station in Turkey’s southeastern town of Cinar immediately, killing five people and wounding 39, the provincial governor’s office said on Thursday.Militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) attacked the police station and adjoining accommodation in the town south of Diyarbakir, the region’s largest city, around 11:30 p.m. (10.30 p.m. BST), the governor’s office said in a statement. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the strike.

A surge in violence has hit the predominantly Kurdish area since a two-year ceasefire between the PKK as well as the state failed reigniting a battle which has killed more than 40,000 people over three decades.

A Reuters witness in the scene said the blast caused extensive damage across the police station, smashing windows on edifices and vehicles and mangling the shutters on stores in roads littered with shrapnel.”It was an extremely loud bang, like it had been in the house,” said Ali Devran, a resident in his 30s close to the scene. “We went and helped take the wounded to ambulances. Some endured burns.”

Coinciding with all the bomb strike, PKK fighters opened fire with rifles on a security complex that was closeby but no casualties were reported, the statement said.

The relatives of two police officers were killed as well as three individuals whose bodies were pulled from the debris, in the car bomb strike, it included.

The PKK, designated a terrorist group America by Turkey as well as the European Union, says it’s fighting for greater rights for Kurds in the NATO and autonomy -member state.

Towns across the Iraqi and Syrian borders, and also a district of Diyarbakir, happen to be subjected to round the clock curfew for over a month, as militants have been targeted by operations by security forces there.

Civilians are found at the center. Amounts in the pro-Kurdish HDP celebration reveal 87 civilians are killed in two towns close to the southern boundaries and Diyarbakir’s Sur last month, simply because they were put under curfew. Thousands of individuals have left their houses in the towns. Residents say the curfews have kept the ill from getting to hospital and complain of indiscriminate operations.

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A square was rocked by an explosion in the center of the historical Sultanahmet tourist district in Istanbul on Tuesday and witness and a police officer in the scene reported seeing body parts following the blast.

Ambulances raced in an important tourist area of Turkey’s most populous city, ferrying the wounded away as police cordoned off roads, close to the Blue Mosque and Hagia Sophia.

“We are taking precautions against another explosion,” the police officer said, ushering people from the square.

The AHaber television in Turkey said the blast could have been due to a suicide bomber but this wasn’t independently verified. The explosion was quite loud. A lot shook.

Kurdish, Islamist and leftist militants all have carried out attacks in Turkey before.

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Fourteen individuals, most of them asylum seekers that were Syrian, have already been killed and dozens injured in two fatal bus injuries in Turkey within 24 hours, local media has reported.

A bus taking asylum seekers hoping to get a boat to the Greek isle of Lesbos rolled and overturned right into a gorge in the western Balikesir province, killing the motorist as well as seven Syrians, state-run Anatolia news agency said. Forty two others were injured, it said.

In another event a day before, a bus taking migrants from Myanmar, Afghanistan and Syria slammed right into an automobile in the northwestern Canakkale state, injuring 30 others and killing six Syrians, the private Dogan news agency said.

From where they could have tried to cross to Lesbos they were also being driven into a shore, it said.

But before this week, the EU said it was far from satisfied with Turkey’s cooperation in stemming the flow of asylum seekers attempting to reach the bloc.

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Nine bodies, including those of kids, washed up on a beach in the resort town of Ayvalik morning, prompting authorities to dispatch gendarmerie officials and coast guard boats to hunt the place by sea and by land for potential survivors. Twelve others were saved.

The dead included women and kids, the bureau said.

Approximately 850,000 migrants and refugees crossed into Greece last year gangs to ferry them around Turkey from in weak boats that were.

Undeterred by the harsh winter seas as well as the bitter cold, migrants are continuing to risk the journey in the expectation of an improved future in Europe to Greece. A lot are Syrian refugees.

The International Organisation for Migration estimates that overall perished migrants 3,771 while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe last year

2,892 was said by the IOM, , of 77% or the deaths last year were on the central Mediterranean course, mostly affecting individuals crossing from That’s 1% more in relation to the prior year, representing the increasing popularity of the course.

Top officials from Germany, Sweden and Denmark were scheduled to hold discussions in Brussels amid concern on Wednesday about new border control measures directed at preventing migrants entering northern Europe, EU officials said on Tuesday.

Sweden introduced ID checks on all individuals and border controls tightened on its border with Germany citing worries about edge measures and public security due to migrant moves.

Danish officials said 18 people without proper ID were denied entrance from Germany of the increased border crossing tests in the first 12 hours. Three individuals were also detained, suspected of human smuggling.

In Turkey, the neighborhood administrator for Ayvalik, Namik Kemal Nazli, told the state-run Anadolu Agency the casualties of the initial episode are thought to be from Algeria, Iraq and Syria. There is no informative data on the nationalities of the drowned in the 2nd episode.

A fisherman pulled in the ocean to the shore at Ayvalik a body having a lifejacket as well as a military police official, Dogan news agency video footage revealed. Other bodies, additionally in lifejackets, were seen lying nearby.

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