ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – The second child of a Kurdish family from Sulaimani whose inflatable boat sank in the waters between Greece and Turkey was found on Saturday, the children’s mother told The New Region, days after three siblings drowned in the incident.

At least three Kurdish children from a Sulaimani family lost their lives after their rubber dinghy capsized on Thursday in Turkey's northwestern Edirne province while attempting to cross into Europe.

One child was rescued by Turkish security forces and taken to a hospital in Edirne in critical condition but died early Thursday

In remarks to The New Region, the children’s mother announced that her second child was found on Saturday by Turkish gendarmerie forces, and that the child was identified by her “earrings, clothes, and shoes.”

She added that the bodies of both children were being held at a morgue in Edirne.

The mother stressed that her third child remains missing at sea, lamenting that Turkish authorities are planning to stop the search operation. “I won’t leave Turkish territory until my last child is found,” she asserted.

The mother called on Kurdish authorities to urge their Turkish counterparts to continue the search efforts.

Safeen Dizayee, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Department of Foreign Relations (DFR), told The New Region on Thursday that the department is trying to gather information on the incident through official channels, adding, “We will follow up.”

Thousands of migrants illegally try to cross the Aegean Sea every year in search of a better life in Europe and the United Kingdom, with a large number of them coming from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Kurdish areas of Syria, Iran, and Turkey.

According to data gathered by Lutka, around 31,500 people from Iraq and the Kurdistan Region migrated abroad in 2025, with at least 10 losing their lives during the perilous journeys and two missing, raising the total number of Iraqi migrants to around 800,000 since 2015.

In November, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said more than 1,000 people had died trying to reach Europe through the Central Mediterranean migration route in 2025.