"The boat was very old, maybe for 100 people, but not for 300," Zaxoyi, 44, told The Associated Press outside a refugee camp in the Greek island of Lesbos. Zaxoyi spoke while preparing to leave Lesbos, the island at the heart of Europe's massive refugee crisis. A separate deadly wreck off Lesbos late Wednesday prompted the Greek government and relief agencies to demand faster European Union assistance to improve Greece's search-and-rescue efforts. Zaxoyi, a Kurd from the northern Iraqi town of Zakho, said he decided to leave as work dried up and he grew increasingly fearful that Islamic fighters would single him out for his western-style music. In one video for the song "Cana Min" or "My Sweetheart," the singer is seen on an outing with friends in a car, enjoying female company and drinking wine, in a song that uses traditional instruments in a pop-music style.
Kurdish Pop Singer Barely Survives Aegean Migrant Shipwreck
By DEREK GATOPOULOS and ANDREA ROSA, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: World
Fri, 10/30/2015 - 12:48pm
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