Promise of Europe Lures Syrian Refugees and Smugglers to Turkish Coast
SIDE, Turkey — He left his home in war-torn Syria over a year ago and set out more than a dozen times, he said, on perilous and ill-fated seaborne journeys to the promised lands of Western Europe. He never made it. In his last attempt, the fishing boat he was on capsized, killing 44 people, including one of his best friends.
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