Thursday, September 3, 2015

Aylan Kurdi Is the Syrian Toddler Drowned on Bodrum Beach

 The toddler whose lifeless body on a Mediterranean beach sent shock waves around the world has a name: Aylan Kurdi.
Images were published Wednesday of a drowned child — soaked red shirt, blue bottoms and tiny velcro-strap shoes — whose body washed up on the beach in the Turkish resort of Bodrum.
The pictures ricocheted across social media — hailed as emblematic of thedesperate and deadly refugee struggle to reach Europe — and were plastered on international front pages on Thursday.