Aylan Kurdi
Greece
Amanda Palmer's Heartbreaking Song and Video Inspired by Lesvos Refugees
American songwriter Amanda Palmer has just released a heartbreaking video for her upcoming, harrowing single "In Harm's Way" inspired by the death of young Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi in Turkey, and conceived while she was working for a Dutch...
Europe
Turkey Sentences Human Traffickers to Four Years in Prison
Turkey has sentenced two Syrians to four years in prison over the deaths of a toddler and his family, who drowned en route to Turkey.
Turkish state media said Friday the Syrians, Muwafaka Alabash and Asem Alfrhad, were convicted of...
Art
Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei Recreates Drowned Refugee Child Picture from Greece
Aylan Kurdi was the three-year-old child that drowned off the coast of the Greek island of Kos, in September 2015, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother. The three people were on board an overcrowded dinghy fleeing...