How the world sees Greece
A memorial service has been held in Canada for the three-year-old boy who was found dead on a Turkish beach last week. Aylan Kurdi died alongside his five-year old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna while trying to reach the Greek island of Kos. They were hoping to eventually reach Canada to live with family there but, instead, his little body was discovered on the beach of Bodrum and photographs were shown around the world.
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SACRAMENTO – Georgia Dariotis, died on August 20 at her family home in Sacramento at the age of 91. Dariotis and her brother Guss Dussin were the children of Greek immigrants and restaurateurs. Dussin founded the Old Spaghetti Factory restaurant in Portland, OR in 1969. After working there for a few years, Dariotis and her husband Michael […] The post California Community Mourns Georgia Dariotis appeared first on The National Herald.
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Aylan, three, his brother Galip, five, and mother Rehan died when their dinghy capsized as they tried to reach the Greek island of Kos in the dead of night.
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The Syrian man whose wife and two young children drowned while the family was trying to reach Greece by boat emotionally recalled their last moments together. Abdullah Kurdi, whose family tragedy captured international attention when his 3-year-old son Aylan's body washed ashore on a popular tourist beach in Turkey on Wednesday, mourned the deaths as he spoke to HuffPost Arabi on Thursday after identifying his loved ones' bodies. “I wish I could transfer my breath to them, to breathe life into their bodies again,” he said. “We spent a whole hour holding on to the boat. My children were still alive. The first one died because of the raging waves. I had to leave him to save my second son, who also drowned. I turned around to find that their mother had drowned as well.” Kurdi told HuffPost Arabi that poverty kept him from buying flotation devices for Aylan, 3, Galip, 5, and wife Rehan, 35, who all hail from the Syrian town of Kobani. “Gathering the costs for fleeing wasn’t easy, and I couldn’t secure the price of the life jackets,” he said. Aylan, Galip and Rehan were just three of the 12 people who died when two boats carrying 23 people capsized after setting off from Turkey's Bodrum peninsula, Reuters reported. The passengers, who reportedly hoped to reach the Greek island of Kos, were among tens of thousands of Syrians fleeing their homeland who have descended on Turkey to catch boats to Greece, their "gateway to the European Union," in recent months. Kurdi's sister, Teema Kurdi, said she had hoped to help the family make it to Canada. "I was trying to sponsor them, and I have my friends and my neighbors who helped me with the bank deposits, but we couldn’t get them out, and that is why they went in the boat," she told Canada's National Post. Those boat trips present a wide range of dangers: leaks, overcrowding and faulty motors causing the vessels to sink; extreme weather conditions in total darkness; and masked gunmen targeting refugees if their boats cross paths. Kurdi said Canadian officials have since offered him citizenship after hearing of his family's tragedy, but he has declined, Reuters reported. He is planning to go back to Kobani, Syria, and will bury his wife and son's bodies there. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Relatives of the young refugee boys Aylan and Galip Kurdi whose bodies were found washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean have spoken for the first time, a Daily Mail report says. The three-year-old Aylan and his five-year-old brother Galip drowned when the overcrowded dinghy filled with a total of 17 refugees fleeing the
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Tirana, 5 August 2015/Independent Balkan News Agency Founder and the first chairman of the political organization, OMONIA in Albania, died today in a road accident. Theodhori Bezhani, 75 years old, resident in Gjirokaster, found death in the Kakavija road section, near the Greek border, IBNA’s correspondent reports. Police of Gjirokastra official, Enerjeta Camani, told IBNA […]
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IOUs for RIPs: Greece's cash crisis creates hardships for funeral homes and mourning families
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Organizers of the Holy Trinity Greek Festival will postpone events on Saturday until after Beau Biden's funeral ends, according to a festival ...
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Hundreds of mourners, led by the two surviving daughters of the murdered family of business executive Savvas Savopoulos, filled the St. Sophia's Greek Orthodox Cathedral on June 1 to say their final farewells. The post Slain Savvopoulos Family Funeral Draws Mourners, Archbishop Demetrios appeared first on The National Herald.
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Looking at the life and art of painter Nikolaos Dragoumis (1874-1933), son of a reputed Greek family, you can only feel sympathy for a man who had the misfortune not to be born at the right time
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A woman who died after eating a sorbet on holiday in Greece had warned her travel agent and hotel about her food allergies, an inquest is told.
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A woman who died after eating a sorbet on holiday in Greece had warned her travel agent and hotel about her food allergies, an inquest is told.
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The parents of two children who died in a Greek hotel say they are "appalled" an electrician convicted over their deaths was re-hired by the same premises. Sharon Wood and Neil Shepherd said they were shocked Christos Louvros was re-employed by the Corfu hotel where Christi and Bobby Shepherd died. Mr Louvros was found guilty of unlawful killing after the children were poisoned with carbon monoxide in their room.
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The parents of two children who died in a Greek hotel say they are "appalled" an electrician convicted over their deaths was re-hired by the same premises. Sharon Wood and Neil Shepherd said they were shocked Christos Louvros was re-employed by the Corfu hotel where Christi and Bobby Shepherd died. Mr Louvros was found guilty of unlawful killing after the children were poisoned with carbon monoxide in their room.
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Police in Larissa, central Greece, on Sunday discovered the body of an 82-year-old woman in the home she shared with her two sons, aged 45 and 50, after neighbors complained of a bad smell coming from the apartment.
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Jared Quirk, 18, died in Greece on April 17 during a school trip after collapsing in the street. On Friday, family, friends and school officials gathered for ...
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Jared Quirk, 18, died in Greece on April 17 during a school trip after collapsing in the street. On Friday, family, friends and school officials gathered for ...
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Quirk, 18, a senior at Rockland High School, died on April 17 in Greece after he collapsed while walking along a street. A wake will be held for Quirk ...
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The mother of two children who died from carbon monoxide poisoning on holiday in Greece walks out of the inquest into their deaths.
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Neil Shepherd gives evidence at inquest into deaths of his children Bobby and Christi, who died during family holiday in 2006A father whose two children died from carbon monoxide poisoning on a family holiday in Corfu has said they would still be alive if the tour operator Thomas Cook had inspected the hotel’s boilers.Neil Shepherd, who broke down as his statement about his “perfect son” and “sensitive, feisty and loving” daughter was read, was giving evidence at the inquest in West Yorkshire into Christi and Bobby’s deaths in a bungalow on the Greek island in 2006. Continue reading...
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