The shocking images caused an outpouring of emotion around the world and pressured European leaders into stepping up their response to the refugee crisis.
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Now, a Syrian girl has become the latest victim of the refugee crisis, reports Turkish state media.
The body of a four-year old Syrian girl was found on a Turkish beach on Friday, underscoring the risks of the voyage.
The survivors were sent to the District Gendarme Command Center.
The child Aylan Kurdi was not the only one who had drowned that day.
The harrowing discovery comes after a boat carrying 15 refugees to the Greek island of Chios sank on Friday.
But unlike many of his fellow ethnic Kurds who have fought bravely against ISIS, when the jihadis raised their banners he fled: first to Lebanon and then, using French press contacts he had as a rebel fighter, onward to France, flying with his family from Beirut to Paris.
“If I could go to Britain, I would, but the rules say I must apply for asylum in France because it is the European country I arrived in”, he said. When I approached Aylan, I searched for a sign of life as I prayed for him to be alive, but there wasn’t any.
Ciplak said that prior to seeing himself as an officer, he saw himself as a human being and a father to his own 6-year-old boy “before anything else”. “There is no infrastructure, there is dust everywhere, and the bodies of the dead lie beneath the rubble. I feel like I am dead”.
He said that Aylan’s body felt heavy on his arms as he shifted it from the beach even though it was as light as a feather.
“Our journey was so much easier than theirs”, Mr Kurdi, 38, told the Telegraph in the 11th-floor council flat where the family is staying near Caen, in western France.
Ciplak, who has a crime scene investigation experience of over 10 years, is not new to witnessing tragedy, but he said that this particular incident shook his bones.
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“I think that the Free Syrian Army is a complete myth, and I don’t believe it really exists, and nor do the Syrians because they say “if we do come across them we don’t mind because they always run away”.
