Rehan

Turkish authorities have arrested four suspected traffickers over the deaths of 12 Syrian migrants in two boat sinkings, including a three-year-old boy whose image became a viral symbol of the tragedy of refugees, a report said on Sept.3.

It was as if the entire world collapsed on me. Was it possible at all to look at that photograph of a little boy?s body washed up on a Bodrum beach without pain in the heart? Moments later, a young soldier was gently carrying in his arms the lifeless body of a little boy. He was three-year-old Aylan Kurdi.

As international reverberations continued on Thursday in the wake of a heart-wrenching image of a drowned toddler face down on an eponymous beach on Turkey’s Aegean coast, reports emerged that Turkish authorities actually blocked the child’s family from legally emigrating to Canada!