The tragedy is just one of the many hardships faced by Iraqi Kurds after they broke away from Saddam Hussein’s control in 1991, thanks to the efforts of their Pesh Merga fighters and with the help of U.S.-led air support. Assad’s phone said he had been taken to hospital from the shock of losing the woman he loved. “Anyone who met her even once never forgot her because she had a very kind heart.” “My sister was adorable,” said her brother, Mohammad Nuri, 21. Nuri’s death has devastated her close-knit family of seven sisters and a brother. She said they were waiting for the coast guard for help. She called her fiancé, saying it was taking on water and that they were trying to bail it out with pots. Nuri sent from the boat when it was in the middle of the channel. Assad has a screenshot of a map and location pin Ms. “She told me: ‘Even if I have to swim, I have to reach Karzan.’ She was very much in love with him.” Assad, her fiancé’s brother, who said he saw her off at the airport in Erbil. “When she was in Germany I told her: ‘Don’t take the inflatable boat,’” said Mr. Migrants who made the crossing that same day said the boats were charging more than $3,000 per passenger. Later, in France, the couple “told her, ‘It’s just a few hours, why don’t you come with us?’ on the channel crossing, and she agreed, Ms. She met up in Germany with the wife of an Iraqi friend of her fiancé who was also trying to get to England, her relatives said. She said her cousin was desperate to be reunited with her fiancé. “In my opinion she got tired and she was grieving alone there for her uncle - my dad,” said Ms. “Some people in Erbil get visas - they are just like smugglers,” said Nihad Assad, who is a butcher in Erbil, referring to the people selling visas in the city. Nuri to travel to the European Union, paying $20,000 to someone from outside the Italian consulate, according to Mr. Assad had procured an Italian-issued tourist visa that allowed Ms. “She told me, ‘Don’t worry, I’m going the safest way,’” and said she would avoid the sea crossing, Ms. Nuri called her best friend and told her to come to her house, where she told her she was ready to join Mr. Nuri finished high school but did not go on to college. Assad visited, and bought an armful of roses to take to Ms. Nuri left by plane to begin her fateful journey, a two-hour drive from her hometown, Soran. Hassan, an engineering student, works part time in a flower shop in the Kurdish capital Erbil, the city from which Ms.

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