The German consulate in Irbil is helping Iraqi refugees
overcome bureaucratic obstacles on their way to rejoining family
members in Germany. Judit Neurink reports from Irbil.
"I miss him so," Mahdia, 17, says, as tears roll down her face. Her
twin brother Mehdi fled to Germany a while ago and she is now with their
family in the office of the International Organization for Migration
(IOM) in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital of Irbil to prepare the paperwork
needed to join him there.Her father, Abas Khalil Elias, wipes his eyes too. He looks haggard after living in a camp for the past three years, trying to feed his eight remaining children by working on the fields. Before the "Islamic State" (IS) group entered their village of Khanasur in the Yazidi province of Sinjar in August 2014, he was a driver. The Yazidi family fled to the Sinjar mountains where a corridor was created to keep them out of IS' hands. Thousands of other Yazidis were not so lucky; IS captured at least 6,000 women and children and killed thousands of men.
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