Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors are seeking 35-year prison terms for two suspected human-smugglers held responsible for the drowning of the 3-year-old Syrian migrant boy, whose images helped focus the world's attention on the Syrian refugee crisis.
The Anadolu Agency says the prosecutor's office in the resort of Bodrum on Thursday accused the two Syrians of "deliberate negligence" and of migrant trafficking.
Photos of Aylan Kurdi, who washed up dead on the beach in Bodrum in September, galvanized global sympathy for the refugees, leading some countries to ease restrictions on accepting migrants.
Speaking to reporters in Prague Thursday, Schaueble says that with better management "we can destroy the business model of the human smuggling organizations."
According to Schaeuble, migration also has a positive side, at least for Germany, because with the migrants "we can fight our demographic problems ... (and) ... we can integrate the people into our labor market."
[...] the response by some, which includes toughening up immigration laws and erecting fences, is wrong, causing unnecessary suffering to people who have already been through traumatic experiences.
The head of Berlin state's department for health and social affairs says Franz Allert had asked to be released from his post immediately "in view of the massive personal criticism" directed at him.
