Tima Kurdi Abdullah Kurdi and Refugee Crisis

refugee crisis: I couldn't make my voice heard to my wife and kids." Chris Alexander suspends re-election campaign in wake of refugee crisis Focus of election campaign shifts to refugee crisis The death of Kurdi three-year-old son, Alan, who drowned along with his brother, Galib, 5, and mother, Reham, has drawn worldwide attention to the Syrian refugee crisis and placed the Canadian government under fire after it emerged the family had been trying to come to Canada with the help of their aunt, Tima Kurdi, according to CBC. Abdullah Kurdi, 40, father of Syrian boys Alan, 3, and Galib, 5, whose bodies washed up on a beach in Turkey on Wednesday, said he lost his grip on his two sons when the rowboat they were in capsized while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece. Everyone was screaming in pitch darkness. Abdullah Kurdi spoke publicly for the first time Thursday after he identified the bodies of his wife and sons in a Turkish morgue and prepared to take them home to Syria. He said the boat was heavy in the water. "We sailed in the sea for about four to five minutes," he said. "The man steering the boat saw that the sea was high, the waves were high. "We were hit by the first wave and he jumped into the water and escaped away. Kurdi said he got on a boat with 13 people, including the man steering the boat. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.