A growing number of Syrian Kurds are heading to Europe by car and plane across Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, then finally by boat to Spain. Crossing Turkey, the most direct path to Europe, is too dangerous, they say.
At least 246 migrants have gone missing while trying to cross the western Mediterranean into Europe in 2022, the International Organization for Migration says.
Years of conflict and economic turmoil have left their mark on Syria’s northern areas, home to some 3 million people under de facto Kurdish control. The region has been targeted by Islamic State group militants, Turkish forces and Syrian opposition groups from the country’s northwestern rebel-held enclave. Climate change and worsening poverty spurred a cholera outbreak in recent months.
Since then, Turkish airstrikes have pounded areas across northeastern Syria, including Kobani, further battering its already pulverized infrastructure, and Ankara has vowed a ground invasion.“I saw my mother trembling in fear and holding my 4-year-old sister to keep her calm,” Shahin said.“I have some friends who found a way to get to Lebanon through a smuggler and go somewhere through Libya,” he said.
“We went in vans and jeeps and they took us across Libya through Tripoli and the coastal road and we would switch cars every 500 kilometers or so,” Mesko said.During the journey across the desert, they had to cross checkpoints run by Libya’s mosaic of armed groups.
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