Diyar used to help his dad prep Kurdish fighters' corpses for burial. Today, he's trying his best not to be one. Having fled their home in a Kurdish populated area of Syria, Ali and Diyar Khalil, father and son, were out of the strike zone but not really out of trouble: a Turkish bomb had hit a water treatment plant leaving half a million individuals without drinking water. Which meant that when I tracked them down they apologized for not being able to offer me a cup of tea. |