The parents of two children who died after a boat carrying 19 people fleeing Turkey capsized in the Aegean Sea spoke to Bold Medya in a report published on November 5, 2019.
Their boat capsized during the crossing, killing seven people, five of them children.
Twelve people were rescued after a 10-hour search by the coast guard.
Bold Medya said it spoke with the mother and father of 6-year-old Mustafa Kara and 8-year-old Gülsüm Kara, two siblings who died in the accident.
The report, by Barbaros Kaya, focused on the human toll of post-coup persecution in Turkey, where thousands of people accused of links to the Gülen movement have faced dismissal, prosecution, imprisonment and travel restrictions since the July 15, 2016 coup attempt.
Ankara designates the Gülen movement, a transnational civic initiative inspired by Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, as a terrorist organization and blames it for the coup attempt. The movement denies involvement.
The video below presents Bold Medya’s interview with the parents of Mustafa and Gülsüm Kara after the Aegean boat tragedy.
SOURCE: BOLD MEDYA
