Death of Alan Kurdi

EU countries were set to try to bridge differences on Europe's escalating migrant crisis at a foreign ministers' meeting on Sept.4, with the shocking image of a dead Syrian toddler washed up on a beach driving calls for binding refugee quotas.

Images of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi have done the media rounds. He became the face of the refugee tragedy and showed how easily the dream of a new and better life could turn to tragedy. A picture on its own tells a thousand words, but here are some stories behind THAT photo.

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.

His name did not appear in agency bulletins. He is also somebody?s son, like the 3-year old Syrian toddler Aylan al-Kurdi whose dead body was swept by the waves of the Aegean Sea to Turkey?s Bodrum shores as the boat carrying them to Greek island of Kos sunk early September 2. 

Photo-reporter Nilüfer Demir explained the moment she shot the heart-wrecking picture showing a Syrian toddler's lifeless body washing ashore Turkey's Aegean coast, an image bringing the "European migrant crisis" to the top of the world's agenda urgently for the first time.

The father of the Syrian boy whose body washed up on the coast of Turkey's resort town Bodrum has spoken out about what happened on the boat that sank on Sept. 2 in a failed attempt to reach to Greece.

Heart-rending pictures of a toddler's lifeless body washed ashore on a Turkish beach sparked horror on Sept. 2 as the cost of Europe's growing refugee crisis hit home.