A 3-year-old boy named Aylan Kurdi and his 5-year-old brother, Galip, were photographed face down in the surf Wednesday morning. They both reportedly died on a boat that capsized while carrying them to the Greek island of Kos. The brothers were attempting to reach Canada, where their aunt lives.
Artists from all over the world are now sharing amazing tributes to the widely seen photo of Aylan under the Turkish hashtag #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik, or #HumanityWashedAshore. WARNING: Some are quite graphic.
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Hell is the reality we living in.. #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik
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The #Syria -n Child on Turkey's shores emerging as a symbol for crisis. Photo via @AdiKhair :
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#Khartoon - I Hope Humanity Finds a Cure for Visas #Syria #refugeeswelcome #refugeecrisis #Germany #Italy #Greece
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#kiyiyavuraninsanlik One of Ummah's greatest political problems r rulers in Muslim world caring not for her affairs.
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"We are losing ourselves as humans,and the people will die around the borders." #SyrianRefugees #DrownedSyrianBoy
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How his story should have ended... #SyrianRefugees #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik
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Kiyametin gerekçesini çizebilir misin Abidin #KiyiyaVuranİnsanlik
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#DrownedSyrianBoy. #Syria have enough to count his death.
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A picture paints a thousand words , and this came from a real image #KiyiyaVuranInsanlik (humanity washed ashore).
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We put him to sleep, and it's about time for us to wake up #HumanityWashedAshore
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#KıyıyaVuranİnsanlık
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Correction
Aylan's brother's name is Galip. An earlier version of this post misstated his name.