This is believed to be the last picture of Aylan
Kurdi before he died when his family's boat capsized in the sea on
September 2, 2015.
“Daddy,
please don't die”, were the last words the three-year-old Aylan Kurdi
uttered before drowning. Aylan’s tiny body and that of his five-year-old
brother, Galip, washed ashore in Turkey last week. The boys and their
mother, Rehana, died during an ill-fated attempt to travel from Turkey
to Greece via the Aegean Sea and only the grief-ridden father Abdullah
survived. Aylan's aunt Fatima, recounts the events which focused the
world’s attention on the plight of refuges. “When the boat flipped upside down and the waves kept pushing down, those two boys were in his arms,” said Fatima Kurdi. Coast
guards stand near the body of drowned Syrian toddler, who washed up on a
beach near Turkish resort of Bodrum on September 2, 2015, was among 13
ill-fated Syrians, including his five-year-old brother, whose boats
capsized off the Turkish coast. “He
tried with all his power to push them up above the water to breathe and
they screamed: ‘Daddy, please don't die’,” she said. After
Abdullah realized that Galip had passed away, he let him go and tried
to save his other son, Aylan. Alas, he saw that blood was pouring from
the child’s eyes and realized that the cold sea had also taken him. “So
he closed his eyes and he let him go. He looked around for his wife.
She was floating in the water. He said: ‘I tried with all my power to
save them. I couldn't.’” The
brothers were among at least 12 Syrian people, who drowned and washed up
on a beach near the resort town of Bodrum, some 400 kilometers (250
miles) west of the city of Antalya on Wednesday. Aylan, left, and his brother, GalipThe
Kurdis were from the northern Syrian town of Kobani, and were fleeing
fierce fighting between Daesh Takfiri terrorists and Kurdish forces,
which began earlier this year. Abdullah returned to Kobani on Friday to bury his family.
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