Kurds returned to Iraq after attempting migration through Belarus

Many of the migrants who have arrived in Belarus in recent months bound for the EU have been Iraqi Kurds. And many have been returned to the Kurdish semi-autonomous region. Reporter Yasmine Mosimann has the story of one mother and daughter who recently returned to the Kurdish capital of Erbil from Poland.

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