For father of drowned boy, new wave of migrants brings back haunting memories

Abdullah Ghaleb Kurdi shows a picture on his phone of his son Aylan Kurdi, whose dead body was found washed up on a Turkish beach in 2015, during an interview with Reuters in Erbil, Iraq February 27, 2020. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Four-and-a-half years ago the image of a drowned toddler washed up on a beach on the Turkish coast shocked the world and drew attention to the perilous journey many Syrians took to flee civil war and reach the shores of Greece.

On Monday, further north in the Aegean Sea, another child drowned off the island of Lesbos after a boat capsized, the first fatality since Turkey re-opened its border to let migrants reach Europe, a move that triggered fears of a new flow of arrivals.